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...campaign's closing weeks, Walter Cronkite and reporters for the CBS Evening News devoted large blocks of air time to detailed reports on the Russian wheat-sale scandal, Watergate and the candidates' positions on diverse issues. CBS's willingness to go beyond superficial coverage of daily charges and countercharges was the lone bright picture in network television's spotty campaign coverage...
...Nixon Administration's eagerness to help U.S. maritime industries (TIME, Oct. 23) has led to an unforeseen irony: it is contributing to a massive jam-up at U.S. ports of wheat destined for Russia. Only about 10% of the 400 million bushels of wheat scheduled to be sent to the Soviet Union by next June have left the U.S. Some 27 million bushels of grain are crammed into storage elevators in Houston alone, waiting for ships to carry them...
Lining up ships to haul so much grain so quickly would have been difficult in any case. But the problem has been intensified because maritime unions demanded that one-third of the ships carrying wheat to the Soviet Union be U.S.-flag vessels, and Washington got Moscow to agree. President Nixon's negotiators had little choice; U.S. longshoremen might have refused to load Russia-bound wheat aboard any ships and scuttled the whole deal...
...will have to pay back part of the profit they make as a result of the subsidy, but the business still promises to be lucrative. Right now, subsidy applications from owners of U.S.-flag vessels are pouring in, and the Maritime Administration cannot process them rapidly enough to keep wheat from piling up on U.S. docks...
...Konski, 68, the 14-term Republican incumbent noted locally for his support of Project Sanguine, a costly Navy communications system that would involve burying 6,000 miles of antenna throughout northern Wisconsin's forests. That issue, coupled with the farmers' anger over the controversial Russian wheat deal and George McGovern's surprising strength in the area (polls show him even with Nixon), has put Obey in a strong position. Concedes O'Konski: "It'll be the toughest race I have ever had. No question about that...