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...billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Even before he first ran for office, Kerrey supported amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers. These positions have not won much favor among generally conservative Nebraskans. Nor did his role at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing, where Kerrey so aggressively upbraided Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter (who is from his home state) that the chairman, Vermont's Patrick Leahy, whispered in Kerrey's ear, "We usually leave our grenades in the anteroom...
...residents, Jews -- the way most candidates distribute campaign buttons. But he came across as an exemplar of change (and anger) at a moment when voters hungered for nothing but. In the end, his laser lip earned him the same anti-politician cachet that has propelled the cowboy campaign of Clayton Williams, the Republican candidate for Governor in Silber's native state of Texas. Silber, like Williams, is viewed as a populist. A hallmark of populism, from the left or the right, is exploitation of anger against the status quo. "I understood the outrage," Silber said...
Yesterday's high tech, though, is today's low tech. The Selectric lost much of its luster in recent years when secretaries switched to word processors and personal computers. As a result, IBM is putting its typewriter business on the auction block. The most prominently mentioned buyer: Clayton & Dubilier, an investment firm. Says Kenneth Camarro, an office-automation consultant: "IBM has read the writing on the wall." And the writing didn't come from a Selectric...
Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter argues that in the heavily subsidized competition for world food sales, the U.S. must not "disarm unilaterally" by abruptly abandoning Government farm supports. Yeutter and George Bush are relying instead on negotiated worldwide reductions in farm subsidies. The subject is expected to produce much talk -- and little progress -- at this week's Houston summit of the seven major industrialized democracies...
...plea to our European colleagues is that they engage in this process and become effectively involved in the Uruguay Round negotiations on agriculture," said Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeatter. "And there hasn't been much of that, thus...