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Starving Lions. The drought seems to be moving southward. The usually lush tropical forests of the northern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Dahomey have received so little rain that their coffee and cocoa crops are far below normal. Nigeria's peanut harvest has been cut by two-thirds. Animals as well as people are suffering. More than 3,000 elephants, lions, giraffes and buffaloes have starved to death in Cameroon's Waza National Park...
...stopped at one of the tiny tiendas or stores clustered in one stretch of the main street. There was really very little to choose from--some hard candy, oranges and bananas, a tasteless variety of popped corn, cocoa leaves to ward off the winter cold, some tins of canned fish. All of the food had to be bused in from Cochabamba, down in the valley, and hence was sparse and expensive. I decided to buy some peanuts. Not that I was very hungry; rather, I hoped to use them as a sort of bribe to entice people to talk...
...were wracked by disorder and threatened by civil war. Telephone and electric service have been out since the beginning of the year, and a general strike has crippled the country's economy. Bananas, one of Grenada's major exports, lie rotting in the fields, and nutmeg and cocoa, the two other principal crops, are piled up in warehouses with no one to load them onto ships. Britain prudently cancelled the scheduled visit of Prince Richard of Gloucester, a representative of the Queen, to the independence ceremonies and alerted a warship to stand by to evacuate foreigners in case...
...somewhat re straining the food-price spiral. A stronger dollar would also mean that American consumers would have to put up fewer greenbacks for imports like Japanese cars and French wines, and U.S. manufacturers would have to pay less for high-priced, short-supply items from abroad like Ghanaian cocoa and Australian wool, thereby relieving domestic inflationary pressure...
...pinch on U.S. supplies of grain and beef is only part of a worldwide scarcity of raw materials. For almost every important commodity - meat, wheat, rice, soybeans, wool, cocoa, copper, lead, rubber- world production is falling behind ravenous demand, and hectic bidding for supplies is rocketing prices. A Reuters index of commodity prices leaped 91% in the twelve months ended July...