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...contest for the Spiro Agnew Memorial Ethnic Slur Award, which last year went to Earl Butz, is already under way. A strong early bid has been made by Federal Trade Commissioner Paul Rand Dixon, who called Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader a "son of a bitch" and a "dirty Arab" in a Jan. 17 speech before the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Nader's offense was charging that the commission coddled industry at the expense of the public. Dixon's semiapologetic remarks to a reporter did not help matters much. Conceding that his slur on Nader, who is of Lebanese...
...Hill, Bergland has blamed former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's laissez-faire farm policy for putting farmers in peril of a "disastrous cycle of boom and bust." Butz abolished costly Government food stockpiles and deeply slashed the multibillion-dollar farm subsidies established in the Kennedy-Johnson era. At the same time, he launched an aggressive food-export push that has helped boost farmers' incomes...
...Butz policy had its successes, thanks to a lot of luck-record corn and wheat harvests as well as big Soviet grain purchases. With the 1977 harvests expected to set new records, farmers may soon need protection from falling prices. Says Bergland: "I favor the free market, but when I say free market, I don't mean bankrupt prices...
Left University of Minnesota after two years when money ran out . . . Operates a 600-acre grain and grass seed farm in Minnesota . . . In 1960s was Agriculture Department's Midwest administrator of price supports, production control and storage programs . . . Lashes Earl Butz's laissez-faire policies . . . Believes in farm price supports, backed by stockpiling if necessary . . . Says that "the free market system ends at our borders-in the world market we must deal with governments" . . . Wants a protective tariff on imported sugar...
...strengths and frailties of the two men only too well?and that may be what is giving so many voters pause. There has been too much attention paid by the press to relatively minor flaps: Carter's Playboy interview, Ford's tangled tongue, what to do about Earl Butz. Yet a fairly accurate assessment of each man has emerged...