Australians Dump Grain at Embassy
Wheat growers in Australia dumped sacks of wheat on the U.S. Embassy lawn Monday in an angry protest against a U.S. decision to sell subsidized grain to the Soviet Union, undercutting one of their biggest foreign markets.
About 50 wheat farmers braved heavy rain to picket the embassy, dump sacks of grain on its lawns and deliver a letter of protest to U.S. Ambassador William Lane.
“The Americans are using production and export subsidies which are diametrically opposed to the principles of free enterprise to destroy our stability,” said the leader of the group, Peter Lock of New South Wales.
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