SOVIET AGRICULTURE MINISTER IN WINNIPEG VISIT
Vsevolod Murakhovsky, head of the
Soviet Agriculture Ministry, observed trading this morning at
the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, an exchange spokesman said.
    Murakhovsky led a delegation of 17 Soviet visitors to the
exchange as part of a current cross-Canada tour. The party
included Phylipp Popov, a member of the Supreme Soviet.
    Murakhovsky is first deputy chairman of the Council of
Ministers of the USSR and chairman of the Gosagroprom or
Ministry of Agriculture.
    The delegation was accompanied by Harold Bjarnason,
assistant deputy minister, Agriculture Canada.
 Reuter
