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...been charged that because of detente we gave the Russians too generous terms in the 1972 wheat deal, and that at Helsinki we allowed the Soviet Union to ratify its dominant position in Eastern Europe...
...wheat deal is generally recognized today as a bureaucratic mistake. It had nothing to do with détente. In 1972 the decision was made to sell them wheat because it was considered a good thing for our farmers. And for that reason, it wasn't watched sufficiently at the political level. That was a mistake, but it was not a mistake of détente...
...Ragtime, the thread is Doctorow's narrative structure, and here it is the presence of John Reed as observer of and participant in history. But unlike Ragtime, Rosenstone's book need not be played slowly. Romantic Revolutionary is best read quickly, selectively, so as to glean the golden Russian wheat of Reed's life from the chaff of Rosenstone's analysis...
...moves are largely political and are aimed most immediately at mollifying big labor. AFL-CIO President George Meany had denounced the grain purchases as part of maintaining a "phony" détente with the Russians. Responding to Ford's announcement, longshoremen called off their boycott of Russian-bound wheat; they had refused to load it, then complied with injunctions ordering them back to work. Ford also gave assurance that negotiations over shipping rates paid by the Russians would go on, to ensure that at least one-third of the grain would be carried in U.S. vessels-a key concern...
...case, the Administration will probably allow the Russians to buy at least an additional 5 million tons of grain this year. That likelihood increased last week when the Department of Agriculture forecast record U.S. harvests of 240 million metric tons for all grains -wheat, corn, oats, barley and rye. That would be 2% less than was forecast in August, but 42 million tons above last year's crop. So, the U.S. should be able to feed itself and export heavily, too -though at how great a cost in added inflation is still unclear...