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...expects the U.S. will post a $5 billion agricultural surplus by the end of fiscal 1986. Reason: beginning this year, the U.S. will drop price supports, forcing farmers to sell their crops for less. To compensate for the loss in income, Washington will increase cash subsidies to farmers. The lower crop prices, the Administration hopes, will make American agricultural products more competitive in world markets. The U.S. would again be a net agricultural exporter, but the cost to taxpayers is high. The Government will spend more than $25 billion on farm-support programs this fiscal year, a 42% increase over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Baffling Trade Imbalance | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...would hope they find it a distasteful experience," says Parchman Superintendent Donald Cabana. "Distasteful enough that they don't want to come back to prison." Of the more than 300 felons who have graduated from the 15-month-old program, only eight have returned to prison, a rate 35% lower than the normal return rate. Says Elzy Smith, a circuit-court judge who would rather sentence some first-time offenders to RID than grant them probation: "It's the best thing to come down the pike since I've been on the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Inmate and a Gentleman | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...classes to cut the federal budget. Instead, he would increase benefits for the poor. Yet this liberal-sounding proposition belies Babbitt's record of penny-pinching pragmatism in Arizona, where he has worked successfully with business and with the Republicans who control the legislature and where state spending is lower as a proportion of personal income than when he took office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biker Babbitt | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...repayment of private foreign loans. U.S. banks reduced their outstanding loans to all South African borrowers from $5 billion in 1984 to $3.24 billion at the end of 1985. Lack of foreign capital sharply limits the growth of South Africa's economy. Eventually the effect could be lower profitability for white-owned businesses, but it could also mean an increase in black unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assessing the Impact of Sanctions | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...forced withdrawal would lead either to a dissolution of these private U.S. assets or their disposal at fire-sale prices to private buyers. The loss to the U.S. owners would be heavy. The impact on South Africa would probably be at least a temporary loss in skilled management and lower profits. But the Pretoria government, long anticipating all possible sanctions, has developed a two-tier exchange rate for the rand, with lower rates on money from the sale of foreign assets, that would minimize its own capital loss in any foreign- business pullout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assessing the Impact of Sanctions | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

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