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...miles from the capital, Wilson suddenly had a time-saving idea. Learning that the Argentines had left telephone lines intact, he stopped at a house and phoned ahead to Fitzroy, the next sizable settlement. To Wilson's amazement, someone answered. "Any Argies there?" asked Wilson. "Yes," replied Farmer Ron Binnie, "but they're not here today." Said Wilson: "In that case, I think I'll join you." Binnie's reply: "That seems a good idea. You'd be welcome...
...surface, the picture is that of any liberated town in France or Belgium during the late days of World War II, though the comparison ought not to be exaggerated. The Argentine soldiers have evidently conducted themselves quite decently during their occupation. A sheep farmer in San Carlos said, "The Argies used to give sweets to the kids and ask them if there were British soldiers in the area." He also reports that the Argentine soldiers told the citizens that henceforth Port Stanley was to be called Porto Argentina, and the settlement of Darwin, Belgrano, after the sunk cruiser. That...
...eventually forced to reverse himself and raise them as the economy faltered. Quie's popularity plunged. As his campaign manager quaintly put it, the Governor decided to step down after "encouragement from a number of quarters conveyed in a number of ways." Now that Minnesota's farmers are disenchanted with Reaganomics, there are signs of life in the long-divided opposition Democratic-Farmer Labor Party. Attorney General Warren Spannaus, the D.F.L. candidate for Governor, is leading the pack of Quie's would-be successors...
Hearings for a farmer hero...
Back in 1979, Farmer Wayne Cryts, 35, of Puxico, Mo. (pop. 833), deposited his 31,000-bu. crop of soybeans, then worth $190,000, in the Ristine elevator, 60 miles away. In exchange he received warehouse receipts, which he used to get a price-support loan of $140,000 from the federal Commodity Credit Corp. Cryts intended to store the beans until the price rose enough to make it profitable to sell them. But in August 1980, the owners of the elevator went bankrupt. Cryts feared that his beans would be sold and the money thrown into a pool...