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...populist conservatives more strongly supported reimposing wage-price controls (50% v. 31% of the classic group). They also tended to be more in favor of loosening up credit (51% v. 40%), giving tax incentives for business (44% v. 36%), cutting defense spending (40% v. 28%) and ending wheat sales to Russia (69% v. 60%). But about 70% of both conservative groups agreed that taxes should not be increased to cut spending by individuals, and 40% of both groups thought that the federal budget should be balanced, even if it means increasing unemployment. In looking ahead, 55% of the populist conservatives...
Kissinger nevertheless negotiated an agreement that will provide India with between 500,000 and 1 million tons of inexpensively priced wheat on a long-term deferred-payment plan. The bilateral good will was further enhanced when Kissinger publicly labeled the U.S.'s attitude during the cold war of distrust toward uncommitted nations like India as "anachronistic and self-defeating." By accepting India's neutrality between East and West as "an altogether understandable and practical" position, Kissinger laid to rest a grudge that New Delhi has borne toward Washington since former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles used...
...then stopped in Islamabad, where he tried to fend off Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's request for American arms to match the $1 billion worth of military equipment that India has purchased from the Soviet Union since 1960. Kissinger promised Pakistan 100,000 tons of surplus wheat-but no arms. If Bhutto was disappointed, he did not show it. At a lavish banquet he happily toasted Kissinger as a "modern Metternich." On that complimentary note, Kissinger left for Iran to talk with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi about oil prices and the Middle East...
Some of the broader dangers were cited recently by Norman Borlaug, winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his development of wheat strains essential for the famed Green Revolution. "You cannot have political stability based on empty stomachs and poverty," he warned. "When I see food lines in developing countries, I know that those governments are under pressure and are in danger of falling." Shortages or high prices of food have already contributed to the toppling of governments in Ethiopia, Niger and Thailand...
Food riots have become commonplace in vast sections of Bangladesh and India. "In the worst-affected areas, gruel kitchens have been opened that provide a watery mess of broken wheat, fragments of pumpkin and lentils," reports TIME New Delhi Correspondent James Shepherd. "Queues of sev eral hundred emaciated people at each kitchen get what is often no more than a quarter-pound of the gruel, and sometimes that is shared among six people. In one village, a shame faced elder confessed that Hindus were violating the ban on eating cows and were consuming dead cattle and buffaloes. 'What else...