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Gantman denied that detente was a "one way street" for the advancement of Soviet interests. "There are no losses for you, no losses for us; we pay for the wheat, you never owned Angola, and Gulf Oil chooses to stay there," he said...
...that denouement, LaZebnik has contrived a few good songs and some priceless comic sequences. Unfortunately, though, his creative abandon is undisciplined by a critical eye; and, as a result, the wheat of LeZebnik's on-the-mark parodies remains mixed with the chaff of puns and punch lines that fall pitifully flat...
...most notable troubles are in agriculture. Drought contributed to a disastrous harvest in 1975; because of an 83-million-ton grain shortage, the Soviets were obliged to buy 35 million tons from the U.S. and other foreign countries. The winter-wheat crop this year has already proved disappointing. Some Washington experts predict that shortages of bread and especially meat and dairy products will become so acute by next spring that strikes and even riots could break out. These disorders are most likely to occur in provincial towns, but not in Moscow and other big cities that hold high priorities...
...looks like just another neighborhood ice cream parlor. There's a honky-tonk piano in one corner and Swedish ivy and wandering jews hang from the ceiling. You can put granola or wheat germ on your natural carob fudge ice cream. The manager, Jeff Lessard, whom everyone just calls Jeff, is an easygoing, non-professional-looking fellow who seems to have taken lessons from Steve, over in Somerville...
...escapes. I explained how we export the worst of the exploitation to foreign workers, citing what happens in Puerto Rico and Taiwan (and, in the past, Shanghai, Havana, and Saigon). I described Latin American peasants who get a few cents a day growing coffee, yet have to buy their wheat from us; we keep governments in power there which force them to plant only coffee, so we can get it cheaply and control the wheat market. I spoke of guerrillas who want to overthrow those governments and our corporate influence, and showed how, if they succeed, the corporations will squeeze...