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FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 117 (USPS 650-640)
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House rejects Reagan's bid for contra aid
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WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives yesterday rejected President Reagan's appeal for $100 million for the Nicaraguan rebels battling the Sandinista government, slapping aside his offer to hold back some military aid during a new bid for peace talks.
In a statement read by presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, Reagan said the 222-210 defeat must be reversed.
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He wowed to shift his campaign today to the Senate in a bid to salvage the request, which called for $70 million in military assistance and $30 million in non-lethal aid.
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Wednesday to withhold all but crucially needed military supplies for 90 days while pursuing peace talks with the Sandinistas.
Alan Cranston of California, the assistant Senate Democratic leader, forecast the House vote could spur anti-aid sentiment and reported votes had begun shifting within hours.
From an initial tally of 49 for, 40 against and 11 undecided on the initial $100 million package, Cranston said a second count showed 48-41 for the aid with 11 undecided.
Cranston's count showed 43 Republicans and five Democrats supporting Reagan, with 34 Democrats and seven Republicans opposing the aid. Among the undecided, he said five were leaning against.
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Farmers face loss by helping others
By Sandra Crider
Kansan Magazine writer
Somewhere on the prairie, a greeting-card quality, white farmhouse stands empty. Behind it is a red barn that needs to be painted. Out in a nearby field, a combine sits unused, rusting.
Along the path to that farmhouse, a sign with black letters identifies this American dream as one that must be sold.
The American farm is in the midst of a sink-or-swim crisis, yet some farmers are finding reasons to hope even after having faced that sign on their own land.
Two Kansas families considered themselves good farmers and still lost their farms. But through their experiences, they found out that those who help others, help themselves, too.
Four years ago, Linda Currie, who is originally from Lawrence, and her husband, Dick, lost their dairy farm near Topeka. Without warning, the bank told the Curries they had to repay their loan because dairy farms had come to be considered bad risks.
The Curries, who always had a perfect credit record, were unable to make the payment or find any legal help. They declared bankruptcy.
"Not only does it take away your way of life but your home," said Linda Currie. "The bankruptcy path was devastating."
After moving to a small house in Scandia, she was told by her attorney that her help would be invaluable to many other farmers trying to save their farms. When she and her husband realized they could make a difference, their own wounds began to heal, she said.
"The farmers were crying wolf in their testimony, but they didn't really know what they were talking about," she said. "Before the Senate Agricultural Committee, my husband told them a real story."
"On his behalf they passed it unanimously. I couldn't believeuck and I could have an impact
Their attorney had asked them to work with Gov. John Carlin, a dairy farmer himself, on a bill to establish the Farmers Assistance, Counseling, Training Service.
They heard farmers testify to the state Legislature about what might happen to their farms unless they received more assistance, but legislators were unconvinced and almost threw out the bill, Currie said.
on government policy."
The FACTS program was enacted on July 1 and serves as a counseling and referral agency with a toll-free number and free services to farmers in trouble.
"One farmer feeds 80 people," said Stan Ward, director of FACTS, "but we know farmers who can't afford to feed their own family."
He said the program dealt with anyone feeling a crunch from the agricultural crisis, such as endangered rural businesses and agri-businesses that sell farm supplies.
Tom Rezac and his wife, Nancy, both 30, say that, like the Curries, they are proof that even good farmers can fail.
The Rezacs bought farmland when its price was at an all-time high. When prices plummeted and bankers demanded payments on loans, they lost a lot of money.
Rezac got a job with a farm-minded insurance business in Pottawatomie County and discovered he was happy without farming — a result that he said surprised him.
A northeastern Kansas farm support network asked Rezac to tell farmers faced with leaving their way of life that there was a light at the end of the tunnel.
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Charlie Griffin, director of the Kansas Rural Wellness Center in Onaga, about 70 miles northwest of Lawrence, said that for those who had lost their farms, helping others was a way of balancing the score.
"I think it helps people to, in some ways, reciprocate for the help they've received in the past." Griffin said.
When the farm fails, he said, farmers tend to seek isolation and withdrawal.
Farmers who aren't as lucky as the Rezacs and the Curries may succumb to depression,
which can lead to bigger problems.
Griffin said stress caused by the loss or possible loss of a family farm has caused increases in the divorce rate, cases of wife and child abuse and suicide rates in rural communities.
"Farmers tend to take personal responsibility for everything," he said, "and this has been an important strength in the past. But this very survival technique makes it difficult to seek help and change."
Bruce Larkin, who owns a medium-sized farm in Nemah County and is working to establish a support network there, said. "I'm concerned for the future of not only my own well-being, but that of my children and country. I don't think the country can last through a system of collectivized farms."
Even farmers who are not experiencing a lot of financial strain see the importance of preserving their way of life.
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