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...morning in Modesto, Calif. (pop. 127,700), a group of farmers, some of whom had been in their nearby fields since 5 a.m., gathered around the tables at the Salida Kitchen coffee shop. Farmers with varied interests, from fruits and vegetables to dairy cattle and almonds, depend less on federal subsidies than elsewhere. But they, too, are worried...
...charge he later made to the Budget Committee. Serious debate on the farm bill will probably not begin until late summer, and then it will be enmeshed with the fight over the sweeping cuts in government spending for other domestic programs that the Administration is proposing. The outcome may depend on log-rolling between rural and urban lawmakers, trading votes for their favorite programs...
...doctors and hospitals at their present levels, the President would cut some $5 billion from projected 1986 costs. Such a reduction would immediately touch the pocketbooks of physicians who treat Medicare patients. Fair enough, perhaps, but it would also have a detrimental impact on the elderly and retired who depend on a service that would be likely to decline in quality. Says Jack Meyer of the American Enterprise Institute: "There is no immediate financial pinch. But what you get is cheapened service...
...interview with TIME before leaving Washington, Kim said his purpose was to "unify all opposition" and "begin a dialogue with Chun," with whom, he said, he had no "political vendetta." In the end, his future may depend on the U.S. attitude toward South Korea. While the Reagan Administration has not pressed Chun overly hard, at least publicly, on the subject of human rights, last week's dustup could prompt a rethinking of Washington's position...
...main building is a white mansion perched on a hillside in Charlottesville, Va. The two-year work-study program is as demanding as any other in the U.S. New students go through a kind of Outward Bound rock- climbing ritual. "You get a sense of who you can depend on," says Don Alexander, a second-year student. Building that sort of group working relationship is precisely what the institute has in mind--that and the graduate education of the future leaders of the textile industry. Every year Charlottesville's Institute of Textile Technology (I.T.T.) turns out a new crop...