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...grab bag of farm plans
With farm bankruptcies at the highest level since the Great Depression, and crop prices and agricultural incomes at a ten-year low, the nation's farmers are fighting to survive. In Dallas last week, President Reagan announced a grab bag of new federal plans to ease their burden. Speaking to some 5,000 members of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the country's largest farm organization, he said, "Because these are unusual and critical times . . . we don't have to stand around chewing our cud. To the American farmer, let me say, help...
...petition to the U.N. denying South African assertions that Namibia's natives wanted to become South Africa's fifth province. For the last decade, a Western alliance of the United States, Great Britain, West Germany, France and Canada have been pushing for some agreement under which the region's grab-bag of native peoples--including 11 ethnic groups and more than 40 political parties--could begin governing themselves...
...addition to the networks, many independent stations feature a grab-bag of holiday movies and theme shows, as well as some highly entertaining visual treats. In New York, for example, a local station broadcasts, throughout Christmas Eve, films of a burning wood fire with Christmas melodies as background music...
There are also political concerns. At UNISPACE 82, Third World countries were concerned that the space powers might grab off all the choice locations in geostationary orbit. (Led by Colombia, countries along the equator claimed "air rights" to everything above them, although the U.N., after two decades of debate, has yet to establish where the atmosphere ends and space begins.) Currently, communications satellites, ringing the earth above the equator, can be spaced no closer than 2° apart (out of a possible 360°) without interfering with each other. Unless something is done to alleviate this overcrowding...