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...miles from the Chinese border, no Soviet citizens of Chinese origin are to be seen. Westerners who have been there say the surrounding terrain is flat and bushy, broken by occasional birch forests. The soil is fertile: travelers describe the Amur River basin, in which Khabarovsk lies, as the "breadbasket of the Soviet Far East." For hundreds of miles, from Vladivostok on north, industry has been built up as well. Across the border, in the Chinese provinces of Heilungkiang and Kirin, industry is also thriving: the great manufacturing cities of Harbin (steel) and Changchun (trucks) play a vital role...
Nixon won, but George McGovern successfuly bucked the Nixon breadbasket tide to gain re-election to the Senate. McGovern, the dovish Presidential Candidate in Chicago, was thought to be in trouble in his conservative homeland. By waging a hard campaign stressing his individualism ("courageous prairie statesman") and his seniority, he made up the difference to win with 54 per cent of the vote over 67-year-old Archie Gubbrud. Republican Frank Farrar won election to the governorship on Nixon's coattails...
...CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP HELP. Boycott threats by the late Martin Luther King's Operation Breadbasket have forced major Chicago food chains to stock such products of Negro concerns as Mumbo barbecue sauce and Diamond Sparkle wax. As a result, Mumbo-maker Argia B. Collins, 42, tripled his sales in 1967. This year, after a seven-year struggle, he expects to earn a profit...
Applause & Repudiation. Reaction came swiftly, both in applause and repudiation of Daley's orders. "A fascist's response," protested the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Chicago's Operation Breadbasket (TIME, March 1) and a longtime aide of Martin Luther King. "The mayor may have a killing program for the dreamers, but he has no program that can kill the dreams." Arthur J. Bilek, a former Chicago police lieutenant now administering the criminal justice curriculum at the University of Illinois, said: "A bullet fired into the body of a suspected looter is, after all, a quite irrevocable...
Next, Operation Breadbasket turned to promote sales of goods produced by Negro enterprises, threatening boycotts to force stores to stock such products as Mumbo barbecue sauce and Diamond Sparkle wax. "Mumbo grew 600% in only four months," exults Jackson, who is now negotiating with Chicago stores to market the produce of an Alabama farm cooperative run by dispossessed Negro sharecroppers...