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Consumers who like to drown their morning cornflakes may soon be merely moistening them. Because of a decline in U.S. dairy production, milk prices are jumping over the moon. After churning out a record 146 billion lbs. of milk in 1988, suppliers are producing about 2% less this year. Reasons: lower federal dairy subsidies, a drought-related decline in feed crops and a falling milk-cow population. As a result, some customers are finding milk in short supply. Even the U.S. Agriculture Department is having trouble buying enough to supply Government nutrition programs...
Much will depend, of course, on whether, and how soon, Krenz delivers on his rhetoric of freedom. The conviction that they will be able to decide their future could indeed keep at home most East Germans who are now tempted to flee; it is difficult to see anything else that might. Until the opening of the Wall, however, Krenz's reformist inclinations had seemed ambiguous. For many years he had been a faithful follower of Honecker's, and as recently as September defended the Chinese government's bloody suppression of pro- democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. His conversion...
...PARTY LIMPS BEHIND. What does matter is that the grim, fearsome Wall, for almost three decades a marker for relentless oppression, has overnight become something far different, a symbol of the failure of regimentation to suppress the human yearning for freedom. Ambassador Herder declared that the Wall will soon "disappear" physically, but it might almost better be left up as a reminder that the flame of freedom is inextinguishable -- and that this time it burned brightly...
...strangling the economy. Hardest hit is tourism, Australia's largest industry. If the strike persists until Christmas, the country's tourism revenues could decline $500 million this year, a 30% drop from 1988. In Melbourne alone, 417 conferences and conventions have been canceled. Unless the strike is settled soon, travel industry experts say that three-fourths of Australia's large hotel chains will be forced to shut down. In a letter to Prime Minister Bob Hawke earlier this month, John McEvoy, managing director of the Metro Inns Hotel Group, predicted the imminent "collapse of thousands of businesses and jobs...
Early this year she began speaking out eagerly on the issue of substance abuse. Her schedule of public appearances soon quickened. Elegant and direct in front of audiences, Kitty was in enthusiastic demand. She whisked off to speak in the Midwest, then to Greece and back in 72 hours, then out again across the country. Her distraught husband watched in alarm. He knew well his wife's deep insecurities. "Kitty can't stand being out of the limelight," he told a close aide. "I don't know what...