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...When Ralph and Christine Dull of Brookville, Ohio, arrived in the Ukraine last spring, they thought they knew what to expect. After all, they had visited the Soviet Union six times since 1983 under the auspices of international peace groups. They believed the U.S. was not doing enough to help promote peace and understanding, so they decided to take matters into their own hands. "We felt that it was up to the American people to establish contacts with the Soviets." Now near the end of their sojourn, however, the Dulls are finding that their ideals of cross-cultivation...
...Valentina reports that her husband is working hard, has lost several pounds and talks about doing some private farming of his own when he returns to the Soviet Union.) "Mikhail Gorbachev's new proposals ((for liberalizing the economy)) fit in exactly with what we think about independent farming," says Ralph Dull. "We were very interested in the changes taking place in Soviet agriculture, and we wanted to be part of that change...
...Ralph, 60, who customarily wears red-and-blue-checked shirts and blue jeans, drives around the 12,000-acre Ukraina collective farm, which lies just 100 miles from the Rumanian border, as if it were his own 2,000-acre spread in Ohio. He walks the fields, checking the condition of the crops, and drops by smelly cow barns and even smellier pig farms to dispense tips about raising livestock. In the evening Ralph gives lectures and shows American agricultural films. Christine, 54, a petite ex-schoolteacher, likes to engage the farmers and their families in conversation...
...This seizure should put to rest any further speculation that Los Angeles is in fact the major pathway for cocaine entering the country and has in fact become a major distribution center in the United States," said Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) spokesperson Ralph Lochridge...
Three things make next week's debut of the St. Louis Sun a little different. First, owner Ralph Ingersoll II, 43, is no self-deluding newcomer but a crafty revamper of smaller papers whose privately held companies have sales that place them among the top dozen U.S. newspaper groups -- and whose biggest concentration of holdings is in the suburbs of St. Louis. Second, Ingersoll has inherited knowledge about the trials of a big-city start-up: his late father Ralph, a onetime general manager of Time Inc., founded the critically acclaimed New York City daily PM, which lasted eight years...