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Coffee boycott has caused
very little price change
NEW YORK (AP) — The cof
fee boycott spreading to parts of
the nation has caused little
price change but has brewed
much confusion over the cause
of spiraling costs.
Some observers have blamed
the high prices on a shortage of
coffee beans. Others have
blamed higher export taxes for
forcing the price up.
And the announcement
Wednesday that Brazil more
than doubled its coffee export
earnings in 1976 while exporting
only about 7 per cent more cof
fee prompted speculation of
conspiracy and market
manipulation.
Some coffee industry spokes
men say a conspiracy is imagi
nary. But the prices are not. In
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the United States, they have
risen from about $1.25 a pound 1
to more than $3 in the last year.
Prices in Austria doubled in
1976 in three installments. In
Israel, where the Consumer Au
thority is urging a coffee boy- ,
cott, the price is now about >4-50
a pound, up from $1.68 a year
ago.
Here is a breakdown of the
major areas now raised in the i
current debate on coffee prices:
Why are prices rising?
The 1975 killer frost that de
stroyed many of Brazil’s coffee i
trees, which take five years to
be replenished, is only one of the ,
natural and political disasters ]
being blamed for the current
situation.
The frost coincided with civil (
war in Angola, cutting produc- j
tion there by two-thirds, an j
earthquake in Guatemala, dis- ■
ruption in Uganda and flooding |
in Colombia.
“We can’t blame the coffee
producers for what’s been hap- i
pening to prices,” said Joan |
Braden, consumer affairs ad- (
Cancer varies
geographically
viser in the U.S. State Depart
ment.
Because of the worldwide
supply situation, some produc
ing nations have raised their
export taxes to keep the coffee
at home. Brazil, for instance,
boosted its tax from $55 to SIOO a
bag since Dec. 20.
Is there a shortage?
A spokesman for the Folger
Coffee Co. in Cincinnati, a ma
jor roaster of green coffee
beans, said, “although the Bra
zilian frost did hurt the crop,
there is no worldwide shortage.
We can see no good reason why
green coffee prices should be so
high.”
William Korbin, president of
Acer & Korbin Coffee Importers
of Norwalk, Conn., agreed there
is no shortage. But he said
neither is there is a huge
surplus of coffee to keep the
price low.
Is there manipulation?
Charges of market manipula
tion to drive up the price of cof
fee tend to be discounted by
coffee experts.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
occurrence of cancer varies ge
ographically for nonwhite per
sons as well as for whites, a new
federal study says. That finding
provides further support for
theories that cancer risks are
linked to local environmental
factors.
The National Cancer Institute
report issued Wednesday said
the findings hopefully will en
courage researchers to look for
local factors that may contrib
ute to cancer in specific geo
graphic areas.
The study covered cancer
deaths among nonwhite Ameri
cans and is similar to one on
whites released in 1975 that also
showed geographical dif
ferences in cancers. Both are
based upon death certificate
figures for 35 types of cancer
from 1950 through 1969.
The studies not only showed
that death rates for different
cancers vary geographically,
but also that incidences of cer
tain cancers vary among racial
groups.
Scientists who wrote the re
port said the reasons for these
varying rates and geographical
distributions were unknown and
that more research was needed.
The study of nonwhites cov
ered more than a half million
deaths of blacks, American In
dians, Chinese and Japanese.
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, January 6,T