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Never had the Continent seen such bustle and palaver on questions that only a few months ago were sacrosanct. European diplomats from both sides of the erstwhile Iron Curtain were talking again. Russia concluded an $800 million wheat deal with Canada, the largest such sale in history. West German Social Democrats and East Ger man Communists were preparing for open debates. The Vatican announced the resumption of relations with Communist Yugoslavia, a hint of ties to other Red nations in the future...
...inspectors are greeted on their journeys abroad with apprehensive cooperation, if not jubilation-further encouraged by the frequent assumption that the Inspector General is a relative of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (he isn't). Mansfield and his operatives have tracked everything from 24 million bushels of U.S. wheat diverted from Austria and sold on European markets ($800,000 in settlements has been recovered) to 3,600 pairs of U.S.-supplied boots found moldering in a Mali warehouse because local American officials groundlessly thought them too small for Malian feet (the footwear was issued to the country...
...Soviets intend to use much of the irrigated acreage for wheat. No other large-scale wheat producer uses irrigation, for the simple reason that the method is so costly that other nations prefer to grow more profitable crops and buy the wheat abroad. But the Soviet Union is apparently so set on self-sufficiency that it is willing to pay almost any price for home-grown grain...
...bounced and jiggled upstairs and down, through houses and haylofts, while Richard, decked out in scruffy beard and scruffier clothes, followed in hot pursuit. At length he caught up with her in a pile of wheat, whereupon the two engaged in some biting and cussing and all-round good fellowship...
There the deadlock stood - until last week, when Common Market ministers meeting in Brussels finally agreed on a plan that will go into effect in 1968 and pay up to $1.5 billion annually to French wheat growers, Dutch dairy men, Italian fruit and vegetable farmers, and Belgian beet-sugar producers to subsidize their exports. France will collect 40% to 45% of this total. Funds for these payments will be raised in equal parts from duties on farm imports from outside the Common Market and from payments by the treasuries of the Six, in a proportion of 32% from France...