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Equally important to the consumer is the Market's decision to abolish import embargoes. At West Germany's insistence, any nation may still ban key imports such as grain, wine, poultry, pork or vegetables if it fears disruption of its internal market. But after a brief grace period (example: four days for apples), a Common Market commission can revoke the ban if it appears to lack serious justification...
Hostility to the state's trade monopoly extends deep into the countryside. Theoretically, all farm produce should be marketed through the state, but huge amounts of rice, pork and corn are being diverted from official channels. A state inspector noticed a strange fragrance in the air as he entered the village of Me Tri. Following his nose, he discovered that almost every villager was engaged in baking com -a lightly toasted cooky made of unripe, glutinous rice. Me Tri had developed so flourishing an illegal cooky business that the villagers were even buying rice grain from other cooperatives...
...work for Kennedy in the Southwest. No sooner had he taken over his Cabinet office than he allowed as how Democratic Congressmen had better go along with the Kennedy Administration's effort to liberalize the House Rules Committee or lose their bite at the Interior Department's pork-barrel appropriations; this sort of talk annoyed all kinds of Congressmen. Next, Udall sent out a letter to oil and gas men, many of whom were doing business with the Interior Department, dunning them for contributions to a Democratic fundraising dinner; for this, President Kennedy found it necessary to rebuke...
...votes of the folks in the mountains and valleys back home. Last week, a full year before he comes up for reelection, just plain Bill Fulbright was wooing those votes for all he was worth-and presenting himself not only as a global thinker but as a peerless pork-barreler...
...school at Namone last week suggested a cocktail party more than a peace conference. Burgundy and beer at lunch added to the hilarity. While the spokesman for the ''neutralist" bloc laughed uproariously at his own jokes, pigs rooted about on the dirt floor scavenging bits of juicy pork and chicken from the table. Even stone-faced General Phoun Sipraseuth, leader of the Communist Pathet Lao delegation, occasionally showed a frozen smile...