NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1984
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Reagan signs crop-subsidy bill
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan signed a bill Tuesday that is designed to put cash into farmers' pockets shortly before the November election.
The new law is designed to prevent a repeat of the accumulation of crop surpluses that forced the administration to adopt a controversial payment-in-kind program last year. The PIK program gave farmers crops they could sell in return for promises to let some of their acreage lie fallow.
The legislation focuses mostly on wheat, which is selling for low prices because of supply and demand issues.
"I believe that we are poised for a more stable and secure recovery in the future."
REAGAN LAUDED THE bill as a first result of his effort to win congressional support to cut the deficit, and the result was that the billion over the next three fiscal years.
"The skeptics who claimed the Congress and the administration would
be unwilling to take any tough steps to reduce the deficits were just plain wrong. And now that we've shown we can do it, we must go on to take the other tough steps the good of the country demands."
Although more than half of wheat acreage already has been enrolled in an acreage-reduction program for this year, farmers will get a chance to sign up for the new program, giving them the opportunity not planting a portion of their acreage.
If surpluses of feed grains, cotton and rice also appear to be getting out of hand next year, the government will pay farmers the rice farmers to leave acreage unused.
The acreage-reduction effort is intended to keep supply aligned with demand. Excess supplies that pulled down prices forced the administration to put into effect last year's expensive and controversial farm program, which required the government not using acreage and produced the largest acreage reduction in history.
greatest reduction in history.
The price that farmers receive for
subsidized crops is the difference between the target price and the average market price. Secretary of Agriculture John Block has argued that rising target prices encourage too much crop production.
THE NEW TARGET for wheat will be $4.38 a bushel in 1984 and 1985, instead of scheduled increases to $4.45 a bushel in 1984 and $4.65 a bushel in 1985.
In negotiating the new package, the administration agreed to pay farmers who did not plant their acreage. Additional land would be scheduled increases in target prices that determine how much cash farmers receive in subsidies.
The new farm package provides $2 billion in additional export financing, including more Food for Peace funds to finance exports to developing nations.
The farm package provides another $233 million in economic emergency credit from the Farmers Home Administration and eases rules for FHA clients having trouble repaying their loans.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's proposed 13 percent real growth in military spending next year has been more than halved by units of the House Armed Services Committee, Mr. Melvin Price, D-III, said yesterday.
By United Press International
In addition, Price said senior committee members have agreed to back a military authorization bill with a 5 percent real growth figure.
Panel trims Reagan's defense plan
The administration requested a defense budget of $305 billion, with an extra $7 billion in military nuclear weapons. The Energy Department's budget
The reduction to 6 percent growth after inflation made by subcommittee, Price said, amounts to $19.5 billion in reductions. A 5 percent real growth figure would mean that another $3 billion would have to be cut.
PRICE'S COMMENTS came as the
panel began a week of putting the finishing touches on legislation authorizing the spending levels for the Pentagon in fiscal 1985. After his visit to the U.S., he into closed session to discuss classified aspects of the nuclear program
Price said he believes a 6 percent growth rate "is the highest increase in defense spending one could realistically look for in fiscal 1985."
He said subcommittee chairmen and senior members from both parties have "conferred and agreed to support an authorization consistent with 5 percent real growth in the defense accounts."
Both levels discussed are below the 7.5 percent growth figure recommended by the committee several weeks ago as the House Budget Committee collected suggestions for the first budget resolution.
WHEN THAT RESOLUTION was passed, however, the military figure had been reduced to 3.5 percent growth, which would require cutting
nearly $28 billion from the administration request
Price said he hopes to get the defense bill on the House floor shortly after Congress returns from its Easter recess April 24.
Rep William Dickinson, R-Ala, the senior Republican on the committee, said the 6 percent figure is "too deep," but that it looks like we are going to have to accept less than" the 7.5 percent he would prefer.
Among proposed cuts subcommittees are recommending are a total of $8.8 billion in weapons programs forecast to cost $108 billion. These reductions include a savings of about 30% by buying 30 MX missiles instead of 40.
Other proposed cuts include trimming the military pay raise from 5.5 percent to 3.5 percent, eliminating a target of $4 billion for targeting system for Air Force jets, and reducing $3.4 billion from the research budget proposal of $34 billion.
U.S. says Soviet plans may threaten satellites
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said yesterday that the Soviet Union's plans for new missiles, a trio of spaceships they could be killing satellites by the 1990s.
Declassifying U.S. intelligence secrets to document Soviet military growth, the Defense Department also said that Moscow had either distributed or is developing two nuclear-powered submarines and three fighter aircrafts.
The arms plans were outlined in "Soviet Military Power 1844," the Pentagon's illustrated catalog of Soviet might.
The report also revealed the Soviets' plans to build three new spaceships, including one similar to the U.S. space shuttle.
fielded at two launch pads.
The Soviet armament program, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Minister of Defence Alexander Nazovich.
"It confirms that's the kind of war machine they're trying to acquire."
The report said that the Soviets had developed two ground-based lasers that could be used against satellites. Those are in addition to the anti-satellite interceptor Moscow has
A space-based beam weapon to disrupt satellite electronic equipment "could be tested in the early 1990s" and testing could begin by the mid-1990s on one designed to destroy satellites, it said.
The report said new launch facilities were nearly completed at the Soviet's Tyuratsum complex for testing a "uttle-like vehicle, a small plane for possible military use in space, and a space tug designed to shift supplies from one orbit to another. All could go into operation during this decade, the report says.
Other recent Soviet advances outlined in the report include:
*development of five nuclear-capable cruise missiles with ranges of 1,900 miles, all of which could be operational in two years.
*Launching of two new classes of nuclear-powered attack submarines — the 9,700-ton Mike Class and 8,000-ton Sierra Class — to bring to eight the number of different attack sub types in the Soviet fleet.
- Testing of two new intercontinental ballistic missiles: the SS-X24, which will be deployed in the year and the year before, and SS-X25, which may be installed in mobile launchers.
Chinese Film Series-(3)
The Story of Hsiao-Pi
小翠的故事
- nominated for best foreign film in the Oscar Awards of 1983
- a story of laughter and tears in Taiwan society
- Date: Sun., April 15, 1-3 p.m. & 3:30-5:30 p.m.
- Place: Dyche Auditorium
- Admission: member-free, non-member $1
Chinese-English subtitles
Sponsored by the Chinese Students Association
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