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THE HARTFORD COURANT: Wtdnndoy, Dmbr 7, 1988 Farm subsidy talks break off in Canada VA urn. Sgv 5531 WW WK Perdue eyes chicken fare in Moscow Continued from Page Gl methods were quite advanced. Wrapped in orange nylon capes and booties to prevent the spread of infection, they found the barns barely lighted but cleaner than the average Soviet street. They even picked up a few ideas for their own operations. They discovered that the Soviets ration water to the birds, slowing their digestion and resulting in more chicken for less feed.

However, the Soviets' scientific expertise seldom is followed at the mass production level. Some chicks are fed rotten fruits and vegetables from local produce packagers, and processing consists of stuffing plastic bags with whole hens that often are not quite plucked or gutted. The hens at G.U.M. contrasted starkly with the packages of barbecued chicken breasts, precooked chicken nuggets and fillets that Perdue brought along from the United States and gave to his hosts. Perdue and Mabe indicated that if a business deal results from their trip, it likely would be a sale of Perdue-designed equipment to handle the cleaning, cutting and filleting.

I ft Associated Press MONTREAL Deadlocked talks on farm subsidies broke off early Tuesday as U.S. and European negotiators reported no progress toward resolving the stickiest issue in broad-ranging free-trade talks among more than 100 nations. There also was little movement on other contentious issues: trade in services such as banking and insurance, and protection of intellectual property such as copyrights, patents and trademarks. The European Economic Community is strenuously resisting demands by the United States that all nations commit themselves to the eventual total elimination of trade-distorting agricultural subsidies and barriers. Farm trade talks originally were scheduled to last all day and evening Tuesday, with breaks only for lunch and dinner.

But Ricardo Zerbino, a top GATT official who has stepped in to take charge of the talks, broke off the session around 1 p.m. and said it probably would not resume until this morning, according to Dan Amstutz, the top U.S. farm negotiator. The United States kept up a strong negotiating stance as word spread that the successors to its top two delegates had been selected. Commerce Secretary C.

William Verity and U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter are both in Montreal for the midterm review of the Uruguay Round of talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. President-elect Bush announced Tuesday he would replace Verity with Robert Mosbacher, a Texas oilman who was finance chairman for Bush's presidential campaign; and Yeutter with Carla Hills, a Washing ton lawyer who was secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Ford administration. "We don't feel it will diminish Yeutter's negotiating stance here one iota," said Kelly Winkler Shipp, a Yeutter spokeswoman here. Shipp confirmed reports that Yeutter had held exploratory talks with Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.

about a senior-level, job other than the chairmanship. The EEC, or Common Market, under political pressure from its 11 million farmers, says it is willing to reduce but not eliminate farm dies. Other nations such as Australia, Argentina and Canada, which are major food exporters, are asking the United States to relent to avoid a stalemate that could jeopardize any progress in reducing farm subsidies. Agreement is considered highly likely on other areas such as speeding up and strengthening GATT's method of resolving disputes, and linking GATT to other international bodies such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Negotiators also are moving toward agreement on liberalizing trade in textiles and generally lowering tariffs, Willy de Clercq, the chief EEC negotiator, said in an interview.

The current Uruguay Round of talks began in Punta del Este, Uruguay, in 1986 and is scheduled to end in 1990. The GATT is both an agreement and an organization which has a permanent headquarters in Geneva. Except for set speeches, the talks are taking place behind closed doors. Negotiators say they expect to work late today, into the early morning hours of Thursday, to draft an overall agreement that can be ratified by the trade ministers Thursday. i sv A Associated Press Perdue Farms President Don Mabe, left, and et chicken at a breeding farm near Moscow.

Per-Chairman Frank Perdue, center, examine a Sovi- due said the Soviet chickens he saw were "lean." Judge allows WHGT-TV to work out debt repayment A- operating in the area WTXX-TV, kets such as New York, Providence, R.I., and Massachusetts. In addition to competition from affiliates WFSB-TV, Channel WTNH-TV, Channel and WVIT-TV, Channel 30, there already were two independent television stations Channel 20, and WTIC-TV, Channel 61. Under Federal Communications Commission rules, a distress sale' allows a broadcaster to sell the sta-, tion to a qualified minority buyer at a reduced price. Continued from Page Gl The debts owed by Astroline Communications to the three companies are listed in court papers as: $6.1 million to Lorimar, $3.1 million to MCA, and $2.4 million to Orion. Under Chapter 7, three or more creditors who are owed at least $5,000 can, as a groupforce the company into bankruptcy.

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89 190 415 Associated Press MONTREAL Japan has been keeping a low profile in a critical round of international trade talks here, in contrast with its prowess as a global trader. Japan, which enjoys the biggest trade surplus in the world, is one of 100 countries taking part in talks on liberalizing and updating the 40-year-old General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. But among the dozens of position papers floating around the halls of Montreal's convention center, few have been Japan's. And Japanese officials have been elusive. Unlike the United States, the European Economic Community, host nation Canada and such countries as NEW YORK RANGERS TOMORROW NIGHT 7:30 P.M.

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Under the agreement, Japan will reduce tariffs on the import of some 180 tropical products, worth about $3 billion in annual imports, Nishimura said. But rice was kept out of that package, much to Japan's relief. IMS SI Tmti-i Tanan has tint hripfprf rennrt- WEO FFEIRY( Q)U ers once on its positions over the past four days of talks. The only scheduled Japanese briefing was canceled, because the person who was supposed to conduct the session was busy. In contrast to the growing leadership position Japan has been assuming on the world monetary and financial front, it continues to be highly sensitive on trade.

On the most divisive point in the negotiations the battle between the United States and the 12-nation EEC on agricultural subsidies Japan has been on the sidelines. As the chief EEC negotiator Willy de Clercq put it, "the Japanese have OFT OF GAB EB's chief says shipyard must work to stay ahead GET 200 FREE MINUTES WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR LINX MOBILE PHONE SERVICE BEFORE DECEMBER 31, 1988. 41 -k ing cellular service, Linx offers you unsurpassed coverage of the New York and Boston metro Talk, talk, talk. That's what you'll get if you take this opportunity to become a Linx customer. But, as any Linx customer will tell you, areas.

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