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Management of the highest order will be needed to achieve the Four Modernizations. Of these, agriculture probably has the highest priority; it is also the most difficult. The Peking leadership has set a goal of producing 400 million tons of wheat, rice and other grains by 1985 and for achieving substantial agricultural mechanization by 1980. Both goals seem too ambitious. Though land in China is intensively cultivated and Chinese farmers are known for their innovation and diligence, yields lag far behind those of other countries. Peking has conferred with foreign farm experts, including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, about...
While the Russians in Afghanistan try to keep a low profile, Taraki's government has boldly waved the country's new red flag, which has a yellow star (symbolizing the Khalq Party) surrounded by some wheat instead of a hammer and sickle. After it unfurled this banner in October, the regime promptly 1) withdrew recognition from South Korea in favor of the Communist North, 2) described its accession to power as a "continuation" of the Russian Revolution, and 3) gratuitously parroted Brezhnev's charge of "imperialist" interference by the U.S. in Iran. But except for the ever...
Everything took on a grander scale then. At one feast, the Archbishop of York laid in 300 quarters of wheat, 300 tuns of ale, 100 tuns of wine, 104 oxen, 6 wild bulls, 1000 sheep, 304 calves, 304 piglets, 400 swans, 2000 geese, 1000 capons, 2000 pigs, 104 peacocks, over 13,000 other birds, 12 porpoises and seals and 13,000 dishes of jelly and all this was only for part of the meal...
...competitive, and more nations than not are closed totalitarian societies. And not all countries, by any means, are willing to inform us in advance of what they are going to do, even if it may be inimical to our national interest. An example of this was the great Soviet wheat steal of 1972, where we simply lacked the statistical data base to drive the proper bargain for our national interest...
...Chinese some $83 million in commodities, mostly industrial chemicals, and bought $62 million worth of textiles and arts and crafts, doubling the previous record of $75 million at the fair last year. The U.S. will probably sell the Chinese $700 million worth of products in all this year, mainly wheat, cotton and soybeans. To pay for some of their imports, the Chinese have devised "compensation trade" schemes, buying machinery with the products that will eventually roll off assembly lines. In a move that is heretical by Marxist, let alone Maoist, standards, Peking has also authorized capitalist use of cheap Chinese...