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...million Ibs. of beef on top of the 1.3 billion Ibs. that the nation already imports from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and ten other countries. That would trim perhaps only a nickel a pound off the price of beef by year's end. Even so, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland is fearful that an abrupt lifting of controls could have a disastrous psychological impact on ranchers, who would see prices begin to level off and would stop expanding their herds...
...Lotito is correct. It was Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland who called for Bert Lance's resignation...
...price-support level was established at 13.5? per lb., and Bergland pledged to begin setting up the support program before the bill became...
...Bergland was unable to persuade Carter to back the plan. Said Bergland...
Sensing a doublecross, Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas angrily accused Bergland of being in "open conflict with what the Congress has directed him to do." Finally, in early November the Administration imposed the tariff and established the support program. For no apparent reason, however, the regulations omitted refined sugar from the tariffs and were otherwise ineffective in curtailing the import of raw sugar before the Jan. 1 deadline. While the Administration delayed closing the loopholes for ten weeks, foreign sugar flooded the U.S. In December alone, nearly 2 million tons of sugar was imported, about six times the normal...