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Hugh Sidey's warning to "Pay Heed to the Prairie" [NATION, Sept. 10] struck a chord in my Midwestern heart. His admonition should remind us that agriculture is of primary importance to this nation and all other types of commerce and production are secondary. The greatest deterrent to a nuclear holocaust is our sharing with the Soviets the grain that comes from this nation's breadbasket...
...ARGUMENT is so cogent, then why does it strike a hollow chord? It does so, we venture, because it once again points up the president's proclivity to pontificate at the expense of action, to take on the easy target as opposed to the difficult...
...great detail," he said, when it came to writing the First Amendment. "What they spelled out is the separation of church and state." Suddenly the 800 well-to-do Texans erupted with applause, then, still clapping, stood up. The candidate knew he had struck a resounding chord...
President Belisario Betancur's welcome to the delegates at the Cartagena conference last week may have been a bit apocalyptic, but the substance struck a responsive chord in his audience. In declaring that Latin America's debt crisis is also the world's crisis, he pointed at the rich countries as the main villains of the drama. Added Betancur: "One of these villains, of course, is the International Monetary Fund." It is doubtful that anyone in the room disagreed with...
...black-and-white photos of the Stones at their decadent best, suffers from the same '60s-envy that makes otherwise rational human beings mythologize the pompous and overblown Jim Morrison or believe that the Grateful Dead were ever more than a bunch of dope fiends who knew a few chord changes...