NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, March 5. 1985
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Farmers take demands to D.C.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of farmers yesterday marched in the rain in the footsteps of Midwest governors and state lawmakers to demand that President Reagan sign debt relief measures into law.
In a chilly drizzle, 700 farmers, who wore work clothes and baseball caps, marched behind three tractors from the Department of Agriculture to the White House, then gathered on the Ellipse and sang 'God Bless America' in a peaceful protest juxtaposed with heavy police security.
A police line that included 11 officers on horses kept the farmers away from the Department of Agriculture and across the street on the Washington Mall, where they crossed into farm land, farmers who have been forced out of business or who have committed suicide.
THE PROTEST WAS in contrast to one six years ago in which American Agriculture Movement farmers drove tractors through Washington, belching smoke, ripping up grass on the Mall and snarling traffic in angry demonstrations.
"We're in the middle of a farm collapse," said Corky Jones of Brownville, Neb., president of the AAM.
"We're seeing family farmers, Main Street businesses, agriculture banks and the entire rural economic system fall to its knees. And we're simply not going to stay home and farm ourselves out of business."
This week's lobbying by the AAM began with a rally at the Jefferson Memorial, where Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, pointed at the White House, a quarter mile away across the Tidal Basin, and yelled, "He can sign that bill on Wednesday and keep our farmers on the land."
from Midwest governors and state legislators who inundated Washington, the House and Senate defied charges of "budget-busting" and threats of a veto and approved farm debt relief legislation that goes beyond Reagan's program.
Critics say the Reagan effort can help only about one-fourth of the 240,000 farmers in financial difficulty because of high interest rates and declining values of land that serve as equity for debt.
The House is scheduled to approve the Senate version of the legislation Tuesday and to ship it immediately to Reagan. A key provision would provide partial-payment price support loans in the spring instead of in the fall to provide quick cash for spring planting costs.
Farmers stood on the steps of the memorial, holding state and American flags and crosses and signs with such messages as: "Why Chrysler and Not the Farmer?"
Strike brews beer runs in Canada
By United Press International
FORT ERIE, Ontario — Thirsty Canadians are making beer runs south across the border into the United States because of a provincewide lockout at Ontario's major breweries.
Canadian Customs officials said they detected no significant increase in the number of travelers declaring beer bought south of the border, but motorists are thought to be smuggling in the suds to avoid an import fee.
"They're probably hiding it in their trunks," said Larry Scott, manager of Tops Friendly Markets on Niagara Street in Buffalo, N.Y., the closest
supermarket to the Peace Bridge border crossing.
"They wiped me out yesterday," Scott said of his inventory of Labatts and Old Vienna beer.
The week-old brewery dispute centers on job security. Workers at the three major breweries — Labatts, Molson and Carling-O'Keefe — are unhappy about plans to package beer in aluminum cans using automation, a change they say will result in the loss of hundreds of jobs. The resulting beer shortage has left many tavern taps dry and closed the province-run Brewers' Retail stores. Beer is still available from at least
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major brands must travel to another province or the United States.
And, by law, they must pay a high price if they declare the beer at the bar.
Canadian law permits a resident to import one 24-bottle case of beer free of charge only if they have been out of the country for 48 hours. On a short beer run, there is a five-case limit and a substantial duty — $5.91 for the first case and $14.55 for each subsequent case.
"By the time you get the exchange and the cost of getting it over from the states, it's not a good move financially," said Mark Kuderman, a Canadian Customs inspector at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie.
"It just depends how important beer is to you." he added.
Miners defy union's plan to end strike
By United Press International
LONDON — Thousands of militant miners voted yesterday to defy their union and continue a yearlong coal strike, and radical miners' leader Arthur Scargill vowed to lead a "guerilla war" against the state-run National Coal Board.
Miners in Scotland and Kent, England, where two of Britain's most militant miners' groups are located, voted to stay on strike despite a narrow vote Sunday by the National Union of Mineworker's delegate conference to return to work today.
The delegates voted 98-91 at an emergency meeting to return to work without reaching an agreement with the National Coal Board.
The violence-plagued strike began March 12, 1984, over Coal Board plans to shut down 20 lanes and lay off 20,000 workers.
The Coal Board said more than 1,000 men went back to work yesterday, one day before the union call for an organized return to work. An elated Coal Board spokesman said "the surprising thing is that we had any return at all."
But the Scottish miners — who number 12,000 out of the country's 186,000 miners — voted 7-6 to remain on strike until Friday at the earliest, saying they were trying to win an amnesty for about 180 of their members who were fired during the dispute.
About 700 miners were fired mostly for picket-line violence.
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Dergeen Minister Humberto Ortega, Nicaragua defense minister, ast week said the U.S.Honduran military maneuvers had been detected by a recent tropical climate warfare as a prelude to a U.S.led invasion of Nicaragua.
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"NOT ONLY IS THE Pentagon converting Honduras into a great military base, but it is now using that country's territory to try out new arms, among which is this small spy plane," Barricada said.
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