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Scarcely three weeks after corn, wheat and soybeans plunged on news of the U.S. ban on sale of 17 million tons of grain to the Soviet Union, cash prices of all three crops largely returned to pre-embargo levels. The reasons for the rebound are many: the boom in gold and silver has led to a general surge in commodities; war scares have fanned fears of a reduction in available world grain supplies; a 1 million-ton export order has come in from Mexico; and there are rumors of higher demand from China. Most important, traders who oversold when...
Engines stop running and the wheat is growing thin...
...shadow of the old Mogul fortress that still dominates the skyline. On any given night, many of the insurgents traverse the rocky goat paths back into Afghanistan to join 50,000 of their countrymen in trying to gun down Soviet soldiers. Janeb Gul, for example, a 45-year-old wheat farmer, stayed in Peshawar just long enough to buy a rifle and a pocketful of bullets. Carrying a string of prayer beads and joined by three fellow Afghans, he returned to avenge the death of his village mullah at the hands of government cadres from Kabul...
Despite the mechanization and scientific revolutions, the modern giants of the earth still fear the whims and challenges of nature. Last week, while farmers outside Fargo, N. Dak., fed their livestock and waited to plant their spring wheat, temperatures fell to 18° below zero, and the steady icy winds were a bone-numbing 15 m.p.h. Cracked U.S. Congressman Mark Andrews, who is a North Dakota farmer: "Up here we say that 40 below zero keeps the riffraff...
Maybe it's the foods they prefer-lamb, lightly cooked vegetables, whole wheat bread, raw sugar. Or perhaps, the air of artistic freedom they have been breathing. Whatever the causes, Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov, the Soviet figure skaters who defected last fall, are performing like teenagers, although he is 47 and she, 44. The Protopopovs left home because they were no longer able to do the routines that gained them two Olympic gold medals and transformed figure skating from muscular jumps into frozen ballet. Now they can, on a U.S. tour with the Ice Capades, which features the pair...