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...named for Illinois' Republican Representative Paul Findley, who managed to attach to the 1966 Agricultural Appropriation Act a rider forbidding the subsidized shipment of U.S. food to "any nation that sells or furnishes any equipment, materials or commodifies" to North Viet Nam. As it happens, the Yugoslavs have been sending Hanoi blood, bandages and other medical supplies. Though the State Department has contended that the Findley Amendment does not apply in this case, insisting that the supplies have been sent by private Yugoslav citizens rather than by the government, the amendment takes little notice of such niceties...
Actually, while the wheat deal is dead, Yugoslavia may still get a final shipment of $9.6 million worth of vegetable oil because the transaction was completed last April, well before Findley's amendment was approved by Congress. Nonetheless, Administration bridge building will be more seriously crimped in future by yet another amendment attached to the bill extending the Food-for-Peace program. It prohibits the shipment of bargain U.S. food to any nation that sells strategic materials to Cuba. Yugoslavia sends Castro goods ranging from truck tires to machinery. And, in fact, the U.S. is no longer...
Promised Support. King Hussein warned publicly that much of the agitation against his regime was being stirred up by Communist agents, who hope to profit from his downfall. To protect Jordan against its Arab neighbors as well as against Israel, the U.S. is considering a shipment of armored vehicles and antitank weapons to Jordan's army in addition to the 36 F-104 Starfighter jets it has promised. The key question, of course, is whether the Jordanian army will continue to stand behind Hussein in the face of mounting troubles. Should it even waver, the King's enemies...
Poppy's plot is poppycock. Two U.N narcotics agents (Howard and Marshall) assigned to trace a shipment of radio activated opium from the poppy field of Persia to the junk shops of Harlem whip out their trusty Geiger counter and go lickety-click from Teheran to Geneva to Naples to Nice. En route they run a grim gauntlet of all-too-familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight...
...even a shipment of California smog had arrived on the prevailing westerlies, and Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin, 66, might have been tempted to think that Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, 57, was a welsher. Hadn't McKeldin bet Yorty a barrel of Chesapeake oysters against some comparably juicy California product that the Orioles would beat the Dodgers in the Series? And hadn't the Birds walloped the Bums in four straight? Well, yes, squirmed Yorty, but he hadn't really accepted the wager: "Under local law I could not bet." Nonetheless, Yorty informed reporters, "I am sending...