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Farm Bill. In his budget-cutting fervor, Reagan has proposed slashing or eliminating entirely a bale of venerable farm-aid programs. For example, he proposes moderating commodity price supports for most farm products, abolishing some special programs like peanut acreage allotments, and pulling the plug on the Rural Electrification Administration...
It is an impressive show of personal clout. But Jesse Helms, the senior Senator from North Carolina, has become a dominating force in the Government, partly because of his own fierce skills of coercion and partly because the public's mood has shifted his way. Next to Reagan himself...
In Congress, Helms leans all over his own Republican leadership. The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, on which Helms serves, is Senator Charles Percy; a man with a terminal case of political meekness, Percy is no match for the baiting Helms. Majority Leader Howard Baker receives only a trifle...
Paul A. Brown, director of the Life Amendment Political Action Committee, said he opposed abortions and favors the Helms-Dorna Human Life Amendment because "abortion means kill" since it has been clinically proven that "life begins at the moment of fertilization."
That outcome would hardly surprise the bill's supporters. Nor would it necessarily upset them. A negative decision by the court would only increase the frustration of the pro-lifers and build momentum toward a constitutional amendment. Moreover, the Human Life Statute, if passed by Congress, could provoke a...