Word: wheat
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...announced last week that it will ship 900,000 tons of wheat and sorghum to India, to relieve the agonies of that country's second straight year of drought. The emergency allotment will serve to dispel reports that President Johnson has delayed new food outlays because of a fit of personal pique over Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's speeches against U.S. policy in Viet Nam. It will assure the eastward flow of food along the so-called "bridge of boats" until March and feed millions in the northern state of Bihar and other places where the rice crop...
Nevertheless, the Administration has made it clear that aid on such a scale cannot go on forever. This year, out of the entire U.S. wheat crop, one-fourth (9,000,000 tons) went to India. For weeks, there had been no word on whether the U.S. plans to sign another wheat agreement with India - to replace one that expires Dec. 31. The long delay reflected the White House view that India could be moving faster in modernizing its agriculture and that other countries must share the burden by providing grain, fertilizer or the hard currency...
While the U.S. sells its wheat for rupees, which cannot be converted to dollars, other Western wheat-producing nations have shown a natural preference for sales to Communist bloc countries and China for hard currencies. Now - as if in response to the broad hints from the U.S. - Canada and Australia have promised to sell substantial amounts to India next year. Last week even the Soviet Union, itself an importer of some grains, announced an outright donation of 200,000 tons of wheat...
...future, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman has made it clear that U.S. wheat reserves have dwindled to their lowest levels in years and that India cannot count on the U.S. for more than half the 11 million tons that it will need next year. The day of the automatic long-term commitment is gone, and Washington seems inclined to take a look from month to month at what it can spare...
Algeria's leader clearly wants the help to keep coming. Though Boumediene still rails against "criminal American aggression in Viet Nam," he is privately imploring the U.S. for 500,000 tons of wheat. To improve relations with France, which has whittled Algerian aid by 50% because of continued friction between the two countries, Boumediene's government signed a new treaty with Paris last week that clears up at least one major area of dispute-the amount and terms of repayment of Algeria's pre-independence debt. Under the agreement, Algeria agreed to pay France $80 million...