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University Daily Kansan, January 13, 1983
Congressmen favor 'crop swap' system
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Two Kansas congressmen said yesterday that the Reagan Administration's "crop swap" program might cause a quick drop in wheat prices, but they predicted the long-range effects would boost the nation's beleaguered farm economy.
Democrat Dan Glickman and Republican Pat Roberts told members of the House and Senate agriculture committees that the "crop swap" or payment-in-kind program was the first substantial step Reagan had taken toward aiding farmers.
Roberts praised Reagan's newly announced contract-sanity policy, which he said was designed to protect farm export contracts. The policy prohibits the government from interfering with existing farm export contracts unless a national emergency develops.
"It's the strongest anti-embargo language we've ever had written into any legislation." Roberts said.
THE CONGRESSMAN, who represents the western Kansas 1st District, told legislators that the farm relief program represented the this administration had "addressed the supply management problem."
Glickman, who represents Wichita and Kansas' 4th District, told the state legislators that Congress should consider a loan or support plan to provide financial backing for farmers who could suffer under the short-term effects of the payment-in-kind program.
Under the program, the government would give surplus wheat to
farmers who take 10 percent to 30 percent of their farm acreage out of production. The program also requires farmers to participate in the government's standard acreage reduction plan, which means an additional 20 percent of farm acreage would be set aside.
ROBERTS SAID there was a potential for a drop in wheat prices under the program, but he said he did not think the threat was as serious as some observers anticipated and could be up to fattier than the wheat paid through the payment-in-kind program. he said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will pay storage costs for wheat that farmers receive through the program for seven months to alleviate the threat of a flooded market, he said.
Glickman, who last week was appointed chairman of an ad hoc committee investigating grain elevator bankruptcies, said his panel would consider establishing a federation of farmers' assets of farmers in grain elevators.
Questions of mandatory participation, production controls and funding for the insurance program still must be answered, be said.
"Ultimately, the farmer would have to pay it indirectly if he didn't pay it directly." Glickman said.
UNDER THE payment-in-kind program, wheat farmers would be compensated for 95 percent of their average annual yield on out-of-flow farm land and would be an 85 percent compensation for corn, cotton and rice farmers.
The program also has met approval from the Kansas Farm Bureau.
Soviet satellite's parts losing altitude in orbit
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Part of a Soviet satellite containing a nuclear reactor swinger yesterday to re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Its orbital altitude was dropping at a steady rate of one mile every 24 hours.
Cosmos 1402, a Soviet maritime spy satellite, separated into three parts after ground control failed to boost it up to a safer parking orbit.
One piece of the "space junk" from the breakup was incinerated by friction late last week when it plunged into the atmosphere.
But U.S. and other Western observers are concerned that radioactive fragments from the satellite's reactor might survive the fiery plunge expected during a nuclear blast and hit on land. A similar incident took place in Canada five years ago.
Moscow has remained silent since Friday, when Soviet officials said that friction would destroy the reactor and that there was no cause for alarm.
The reactor and another segment of the crippled satellite still are reported circling the Earth every 89.4 minutes in orbits that successively bring them over every land mass on the globe from the Artic to the Antarctic circles.
The heavier portion containing the nuclear reactor was slowly tumbling end-over-end, making more difficult a prediction of its entry into the atmosphere and a plunge to the Earth's surface.
U. S. space experts say the satellite's original orbit, which was 172 miles at its highest and 157 miles at its lowest when Soviet scientists launched it last summer, has "decayed" to a range of 145 and 139 miles.
Pentagon officials said pieces of Cosmos 1402 were likely to re-enter
Earth's atmosphere some time during the week beginning Jan. 23.
At Kettering, England, a British space expert predicted Monday that the United States could detonate.
Geoffrey Perry, a recognized satellite expert, said, "I think it will all burn up. If anything does get through, it will be quite small and the chance of it falling in densely populated areas is quite minimal."
U. S. space trackers, citing the plunge to Earth by a similar Soviet ocean reconnaissance satellite five years ago, said they would not be able to plot the exact crash course of Cosmos 1402 until the final seven to 10 hours.
"It could come down anywhere," a State Department official said Friday. "Hopefully, surviving debris will come down at sea.
"We have instructed our missions overseas to inform all countries with which we have diplomatic relations, and the U.N. secretary-general, of the situation regarding the malfunctioning Soviet satellite."
Cosmos 954, an earlier nuclear-powered Soviet spy satellite, began breaking up in space Dec. 17, 1977, after failing to respond to radio signals ordering the reactor section into a fault and not deteriorate for 600 to 800 years.
Radioactive debris from Cosmos 954 spattered over a wide uninhabited area around Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada's Northwest Territories.
The more recent Cosmos 1402 was launched Aug. 30, 1982, to spy on ship movements, particularly U.S. Navy ships, with radar powered by a reactor fueled by more than 100 pounds of uranium.
The reactor also has produced atomic products, including trontium, cesium and potassium.
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