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...blames the food shortages largely on the government's grossly inefficient distribution system. There is some support for that argument. Grain-bearing ships, for example, are often unable to unload at Polish ports because there is no room in the grain elevators. Reason: a lack of trains to transport the grain to Poland's hungry people...
...taking steps to stock Poland's larder. Last week the Reagan Administration announced plans to grant Warsaw $55 million in long-term credits to buy and transport 350,000 metric tons of U.S. corn to Poland to help save the country's threatened poultry industry. The Administration also authorized the Catholic Relief Services agency to buy surplus American agricultural products at low prices for shipment to Poland. Reflecting just how critical its food shortage has become, Poland has attracted the concern of CARE, the New York City-based charity that first gained international recognition in 1946 by sending...
Possibly a couple of the pedestrians watching Lady Elizabeth's guests disembarking from their Rollses and Daimlers will have wandered into Mayfair courtesy of the special gold, blue and white all-day ticket that London Transport is providing for the wedding day. At a cost of $4, it represents the cheapest tour around. The most expensive seems to be the trip organized by Mrs. Ian Routledge, who, for a fee of $5,000 (exclusive of air fare), will ferry 70 presumptive American socialites from London's St. James' club to stately country homes, where they can hobnob...
...members of the surviving dynasties-the Dutch and the Belgians, the Swedes and the Danes-they managed to find a modus vivendi largely by effacing themselves: riding bicycles, using public transport, marrying commoners and generally behaving like senior civil servants rather than anointed kings and queens...
...automatic-rifle fire echoed in the cloud-draped mountains along the El Salvador-Honduras border, U.S.-supplied "Huey" transport helicopters banked low over steep, forested gorges, then deposited heavily armed troops at key locations on the forbidding terrain. According to eyewitnesses, the elite Atlacatl Brigade, some 800 to 1,000 strong, landed near the village of Valladolid, Honduras, violating Honduran airspace and territory as local soldiers looked on impassively. The invaders' mission: to engage leftist Salvadoran guerrilla forces entrenched in pockets along the demilitarized border zone established after El Salvador's four-day war in 1969 with Honduras...