The World - News from Aug. 15, 1986
The Reagan Administration said that its bargain-rate sugar sale to China will not disrupt world markets or the security relationship with Australia--a sugar-producing U.S. ally already angered by American farm subsidies. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said China gave assurances that its purchase of 145,850 metric tons of sugar would not interfere with its acquisitions from other nations.
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