Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many militant farmers warn they will launch a nationwide strike on Dec. 14 unless Government price supports are raised substantially. They are threatening to stop selling their crops and stop buying supplies and equipment. Says Bud Bitner, a Colorado farmer who helped organize the protest, which is concentrated in such wheat-belt states as Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and the Dakotas: "We're not trying to shut off the food supply of the nation. We're trying to get a reasonable price...
...give up (see box). Since 1970, farm debt has doubled to $101 billion. An Agriculture Department survey of the wheat belt last summer showed that 73,000 farmers were having trouble repaying loans, with some 14,000 of them likely to lose their farms. Edward H. Melroe, a Colorado grain farmer, reports: "I went to the bank last week for another $10,000 loan, and the banker told me: 'That's it. No more...
...their production costs. So far, American Agriculture, operating out of a small one-story building in Springfield, has spent a modest $20,000, raised from farmers' donations, to print leaflets, make telephone calls and send out proselytizers. "You can't believe the response," says Dan Yokum, a Colorado farmer who helps man the phones in the organization's headquarters. Argues Bud Bitner: "This thing is cooking all over...
...Puerto Rican familiar with F.A.L.N. tactics is "José," a muscular, mustachioed sometime terrorist who now lives in Colorado and, at 32, describes himself as "retired." As José tells it, the F.A.L.N. is just one element-the noisiest, to be sure-in a rather fluid Puerto Rican terrorist community. Although its size is difficult even to guess at-estimates range between a few dozen members to hundreds-the community is said to be run by separate "central committees" in Puerto Rico and on the U.S. mainland. On the island, says José, terrorist cells tend to have half...
Dynamite used by the F.A.L.N. has been traced to thefts from construction sites in Colorado and New Mexico. But José says that Cuba and sympathizers in the Dominican Republic have also supplied the independence movement's guns and explosives-though not its funds. Beyond contributions from rich radicals and occasional fund-raising rallies, the revolutionaries finance their operations by robbing banks and smuggling drugs...