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Even if the White House succeeds in whittling down the price-support system, the Agriculture Department will still be stuck with the mountains of butter, cheese and dry milk that it already owns. Secretary of Agriculture John Block wants authority to unload some of the Government's butter on world markets at a competitive price before it turns rancid. But Secretary of State Alexander Haig worries lest any additional butter on the world market be bought up by the Soviet Union. Now that the Government has lifted its grain embargo to the U.S.S.R., Haig seems to be saying...
...affair; he and every other politician in the country should be made to recognize the British presence in Ireland for the basic violation of human rights that it is. Americans can boycott British goods, following the lead of the American longshoreman, who refused for 24 hours to load or unload ships flying the Union Jack. They can make Ireland an issue in American politics, demanding that congressmen--especially Irish pols like our own Tip O'Neill--demand the quick departure of the British. They can begin writing letters a la Amnesty International to the British, demanding that they grant Irish...
...shots while passing the ball upfield to the sophomore-senior combination of Kerry Bryan and White. Bryan and White each in turn passed to Den Hartog, who scored two goals in the final minutes to cap Harvard's day. Den Hartog's last goal was a wheel-pivot and unload shot that left the Yale goalie cringing in the corner...
Signs of the American trade connection are in many places. In Shanghai, ships of the American President Line unload bales of American raw cotton. In the southwestern province of Sichuan, preparations are under way for an oil drill bit plant to be built under a $50 million contract with the Hughes Tool Co. In the coastal Fujian province, the state-owned Amoy Cigarette Co. will soon be producing Camels under an agreement with the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. In Peking, Bank of America will open a branch in a two-story brick building that was part of the U.S. legation...
...from its well-trained, U.S.-equipped 60,000-man army. King Hussein, who met in Baghdad last week with Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein, also organized truck convoys to carry Soviet and East bloc military supplies from the Jordanian port of Aqaba; its harbor was crowded with freighters waiting to unload. Western diplomats speculated that the Saudis, Jordanians and Iraqis had formed a new conservative Arab alliance that was aimed at checking the Iranian brand of revolutionary Islam in the area...