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Iowa's new Democratic Senator Tom Harkin, barely introduced to the rituals of the cloakroom, was bumping along the back roads of Nicaragua a fortnight ago accusing President Reagan of "deception, distortion and duplicity." Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk may have had a point when he said, "Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine, and he thinks he is Secretary of State." When Harkin and his fellow freshman Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts got home brandishing a cease-fire proposal from Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, the venerable Republican Barry Goldwater said they both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Season of Bad Manners | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...lobbying. In Ames, Iowa, 15,000 people, many wearing bright green FARM CRISIS ribbons, jammed a midweek protest rally at Iowa State University's Hilton Coliseum carrying signs reading FARMS, NOT ARMS and NO BILL, NO TILL. Back East, eight farm-state Senators led by Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin echoed their constituents with a demonstration of their own in Lafayette Park, across from the White House. Harkin had 250 white crosses planted to represent the approximate number of farms going out of business each day. "If this President thinks he can preside over the death of the family farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Push Comes to Shove | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...Attorney General, which has already been on hold for a year. Robert Dole, the new Majority Leader, called the maneuver "blackmail" and testily declared, "If we start playing political games rather than responding to the real concerns of these issues, then we are finished." Shot back Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa: "Those of us who are seeing thousands of our farmers go under . . . are not here to play political games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Hardball in February | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...Justice Department seems to be operating quite well," said Sen. Tom Harkin, (D-Iowa) "Why is it more important for us to take the time to act on the Meese nomination than it is to take up important farm legislation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Opens Debate on Meese Nomination | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

...heavily to bring more land into cultivation and buy machinery. Their debts zoomed from less than $50 billion at the start of the '70s to around $200 billion now. To hear some of their elected representatives tell it, the bankers practically begged farmers to take loan money. Says Senator Harkin: "We had bankers going up and down the road like Fuller Brush salesmen during the '70s. They couldn't get farmers to borrow enough." Interest rates skyrocketed, but so did the value of farmland, which was regarded as a scarce resource in a hungry world. The loans secured by farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Trouble on the Farm | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

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