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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rush to the short-wave radio is an increasingly common sight: despite television and other forms of instant communication, much of the world still gets its news from those very short waves bounced off the ionosphere. The upper atmosphere indeed is the true Tower of Babel; far above the clouds, scores of tongues and half a dozen ideologies compete for the attention of those below. By the latest count, 34 countries broadcast in short wave, beaming out an astonishing 20,000 hours of programming each week...
...however, the farmers' plight had vastly improved. The drought in the U.S., plus bad harvests in Argentina and Australia, gave farm prices a big boost. The cost of grain suddenly shot up by as much as 50%; at that point, buyers snapped up all of the grain in sight and the result was a bonanza for farmers who had been able to ride out the early months of the embargo. "For the first time in 35 years, I'm out of debt," said Clarence Adams of McHenry, Ill. He had sold 30,000 bu. of corn at more...
...foreign affairs, everything in sight seems an emergency, from the hostages to the Polish frontier. Whatever happens in Poland, Reagan will not be overeager to negotiate an arms-control pact with the Soviets. What sort of agreement, then, will eventually...
That too is symbolic: as individual human beings, the hostages have all but vanished from the world's sight. No outsider has seen the main group of hostages since April 6, when a number of American clergymen held Easter services in the seized U.S. embassy. There has been no reliable word on how they are being treated since July, when the Iranians released Richard Queen, who is suffering from multiple sclerosis. Queen reported that for a while after the embassy seizure the hostages were often bullied, and even threatened with execution, by their militant captors, but that early this...
...sight, however, in this case is the reverse of out of mind: never before has a largely anonymous group so dominated American thought -and policy. Jimmy Carter confessed that early in the year he had been obsessed with the hostages' fate, and his first words when the Iran-Iraq war broke out concerned not only the threat to world oil supplies and the menace of expanding Soviet influence in the Middle East, but also the possibility of trading military spare parts for the hostages' release...