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...Kansas reported that Reagan showed he had not lost touch with reality, admitting he did not expect his New Federalism to pass both the House and Senate this year either. Thus the debate was taking place in something of avoid. Observed Carlin: "When I talk to the Kansas farmer or small businessman, there's not too much concern about the New Federalism. They want to know about interest rates and the economy...
...them. Yet one way or another interest rates are paid by everyone who borrows money, which in the modern credit economy means just about everyone, period. Interest rates help to determine whether a business can hire workers, whether a consumer can afford his or her dream house, whether a farmer can plant seed. If they escaped the front-page headlines and the TV news in the past, that was because rates usually changed only slowly and by small amounts...
...kind of chain reaction in the farm lands. Food processors rely on short-term financing to stock up on the raw goods that they package, can and otherwise process into food. But to hold down interest costs, the processors are now slashing inventories and buying less from their farmer-suppliers. Those cutbacks are coming precisely when the farmers need every penny to pay their interest charges. The squeeze on the farmers is forcing more and more of them to try to cut back on their interest burdens, and many are doing so by postponing the purchase of tractors, combines...
...local farmer, Orvino Gonzales, 37, was coming down the Coco River in a boat the night the shooting in Leimus started. Said he: "It was dark, but I saw maybe 15 people taken out of a building and lined up in a launch on the water. The Sandinistas shot them with automatic rifles. The bodies fell into the water." Two days later the Sandinistas burned houses in Wiwinak, where Gonzales lived. Several miles upstream, the village of San Jeronimo was reduced to ashes...
3000m--1. Y, Alkeson, 8:16 84 2. Pr. Costello 3. N. Kovach 4. D. Hampton 5. Pr: Farmer...