Friday, Jan. 17, 1986
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Law cuts farm programs
Farmers lose price benefits
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Spending cuts under the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law will mean reductions in most Agriculture Department programs, including how much farmers will get in federal price-support benefits, officials said yesterday.
Some employee cutbacks also will occur, probably resulting in reductions in federal meat and poultry inspection and conservation services to farmers.
The law calls for a 4.3 percent domestic spending reduction in programs for fiscal 1986, which began last Oct. 1.
Department budget officials said food stamps and child-feeding programs were exempt but that other USDA functions would bear a total reduction of more than $1.26 billion
For example, Robert E. Sherman,
the department's deputy budget
director, said that when farmers go
to their local USDA offices to collect
crop price support loans or apply for
target price deficiency payments,
they'll have 4.3 percent deducted
from what they otherwise would get.
In effect, Sherman said, the 1986 wheat price support of $2.40 per bushel will be shaved to $2.30. The deficiency payments, which make up the difference between market prices and the target also would be trimmed.
Although the law applies to the current fiscal year, Sherman said its curb on USDA spending will affect the entire 1986 crop year, meaning corn and other commodities harvested next fall.
The 1986 corn loan — the amount farmers can borrow from the USDA by using their crop as collateral — effectively would be reduced to $1.84 per bushel from $1.92.
The 1986 crop loan rates were announced earlier this week by Agriculture Secretary John R. Block as part of his decisions to carry out the new Food Security Act of 1985, the farm bill passed by Congress and
signed by President Reagan just before Christmas.
Block, hoping to make U.S. commodities more competitive in the world market, reduced the 1986 wheat loan rate to $2.40 from $3.30 per bushel last year, and corn to $1.92 per bushel from $2.55 in 1985, the maximum reduction allowed by the law. The Gramm-Rudman cuts will be on top of that.
The USDA has the equivalent of about 109,000 full-time employees, but Sherman said, he could not tell how many might have to be furledough or laid off because of the cutbacks.
Most likely, he said, those would occur in the department's Food Safety and Inspection Service, which includes meat and poultry inspection, and the Soil Conservation Service, which provides technical assistance to farmers.
But virtually all USDA agencies will feel the crimp, according to figures provided by the department's budget people.
Ike's 'military-industrial complex' has been overlooked, author says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Twenty-five years ago, Dwight D. Eisenhower, his eight years of the presidency drawing to a close, gave his fellow citizens a new term and something new to worry about — the military-industrial complex.
In a farewell address on Jan. 17, 1961, four days before he he turned over his office to John F. Kennedy, Eisenhower introduced the phrase and raised the issue:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
Eisenhower defined the military-industrial complex as the "conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large
arms industry." He said this combination, new in the American experience, could disrupt scientific progress, distort government spending and endanger freedom.
Stephen Ambrose, Elsenhower's biographer, said the contemporary effect of his words amounted to nothing.
All eyes were on the young president.
"Kennedy took office, and we had the Kennedy-McNamara arms race, with an immediate 10 percent, then a 20-percent increase in defense expenditures," Ambrose said.
But economist John Kenneth Galbraith said liberals had been quoting Eisenhower ever since the speech, and Bruce Weinrod of the conservative Heritage Foundation said Ike's phrase became "an old chestnut that liberals pull out to make legitimate points."
in choosing to deliver a farewell, had an eye on history and on the precedent of George Washington, another soldier-president who delivered a historic farewell address upon leaving office. The idea didn't catch on; Eisenhower is the only president to have emulated Washington.
Eisenhower carefully edited the speech prepared for him by speechwriter Malcolm Moos. While it is unclear whether the term military-industrial complex actually was Eisenhower's or Moos', it is a myth that the thinking behind the speech had never previously been enunciated by Ike, Ambrose said.
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"It was the most consistent imaginable speech he could have made," he said. "It reflected what he'd just spent eight years doing."
For eight years, Ambrose said, Eisenhower battled those who wanted to spend more on arms.
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January 17, 1986
We would like to invite you to participate in the "Parade of celebration" commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr., on Monday, January 15th at 10 a.m. Participants will walk from ChA Omega Fountain (601)theScience (809) Sinai Hall where a short program will be presented in Room 100.
Dear Students:
January 20 will mark the first observance of Martin Luther King's birthday as a federal legal holiday. With the exception of George Washington, the holiday is the only one to pay tribute to the Confederate patriot. We hope you will join us as we pay tribute to Dr. King.
Dr. King was an unique, individual who led a non-violent revolution for social change. His commitment to equality and justice for all regardless of race, creed, or color was implemented in the National Legislative changes and contributed to his winning the Nobel Peace Prize under Dr. King died at the hands of an assassin in 1968, his ideals and commitment still influence our lives today. His dream lives on.
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