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...increasingly concerned about Israel's economic intentions. Despite its fratricidal troubles, Lebanon has had a relatively healthy free-market economy. The Lebanese pound can be freely exchanged for Western currencies, inflation has been running at a relatively modest 23%, and in 1981 Lebanon had a balance of payments surplus of $1.2 billion. In contrast, the Israeli economy is controlled, the shekel is not readily convertible, and Israeli inflation is in triple digits...
...station at Point Sur in California. Last year Wolman, who has his own Cessna, published California from the Air: The Golden Coast. He knew Point Sur well and says, "I fell in love with it again." Photographer Steve Liss had a less aesthetic vista at Bucks Harbor, Me.: a surplus airbase. After checking every conceivable camera angle on the ground, he concluded reluctantly that he, like Wolman, would have to fly. "I'm petrified of planes," says Liss, "especially small ones...
...National Wildlife Refuge systems are exempt from consideration. So are Indian Trust lands and Wilderness areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Trails, national conservation areas and certain other lands designated by Congress. This adds up to 400 million acres. Everything else can be put on the block. The surplus lands first will be assessed to determine their market value. Next they will be offered to other federal agencies, which may want to use them for different purposes. If there are no federal takers, the lands will be offered to state and local governments. Only after all government agencies have been...
Surfeited with some 100 million surplus tons of grain, U.S. farmers bewail the missed opportunities. "It's a little like spitting in the ocean," complains Robert Delano, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. "We have simply invited the Soviet Union to shop elsewhere to fill in its shortages." Says Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa: "This extension is great news for Argentine, Australian, Canadian and European farmers...
...their crop. Those who raise hogs and cattle are doing relatively better, thanks to climbing meat prices and, ironically for grain growers, the low cost of feed. Dairymen, who make up only 13% of all farmers, are faring best of all, since Washington buys up nearly all of their surplus products; last year the Federal Government paid out more than $2 billion in dairy price supports...