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...Communist Eastern Europe, especially to Yugoslavia, whose independence from Moscow the U.S. has long encouraged. Yugoslavia is the third largest recipient of American surplus food (after India and Pakistan), has taken almost $1 billion worth. Lately it has been seeking to buy an additional $29 million worth of wheat and vegetable oil under the easy payment terms of the Food-for-Peace program. However, as a result of two restrictive amendments passed by the last session of Congress, the flow of food to Tito's homeland has been mired, and finally halted, by an obscure bridge buster called...
...Physics I, earned a Fulbright scholarship, filmed a documentary in a Manhattan ghetto, and guided Gemini rendezvous in space. He earns $76 a week with Operation Head Start in Philadelphia, picks up $10,800 a year as a metallurgical engineer at Ford, and farms 600 acres of Dakota wheat land. He has a lightning-fast left jab, a rifling right arm, and reads medieval metaphysicians. He campaigned for Reagan, booed George Wallace, and fought for racial integration. He can dance all night, and if he hasn't smoked pot himself, knows someone who has. He tucks a copy...
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...