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...during the worst years for U.S. farming since the Depression. Farm exports dropped nearly 30% and land values eroded, bringing down debt-laden farmers and their creditors. Block leaves with a victory: the 1985 farm bill. While extending the farm subsidies the Administration wanted to cut, the new law nevertheless gives the Agriculture Secretary authority to lower price supports of major crops, making U.S. products more competitive on the world market. Block's possible successor: Richard Lyng, Reagan's California agriculture director in the late 1960s...
...lost his will to write novels is always in danger of trying the reader's patience. His repeated assertions that uncertainty is the only certainty are a bit modish, as is his belief that literature is not in the enlightening business, but should aim to create "disturbances." Nevertheless, Ford accomplishes the first requirement of fiction: the making of a convincing illusion. Frank Bascombe inhabits an all too believable dreamworld. --By R.Z. Sheppard
...tried to change the U.S. Government dramatically. That's an odd revelation. Anyone who spent four years as a Congressman should know that Presidents do not win power by planning to discard totally the American past. Ronald Reagan never suggested he intended to dismantle two centuries of American tradition. Nevertheless, the Reagan Administration has brought enough change to Washington to be called a revolution, at least in the patois of journalists...
...raise $50,000 during the next two months to investigate the legal barriers to a genuine draft of lacocca. Their cause is complicated by a tradition that says drafts rarely succeed and by election laws in some states that work against getting undeclared and unwilling candidates on the ballot. Nevertheless, the fledgling committee could have reason to dream: a Washington Post-ABC News poll earlier this year had lacocca trailing behind only Colorado Senator Gary Hart and New York Governor Mario Cuomo, among other likely Democratic candidates. CRIME Deadly Gunk From el Norte...
...heat last week from its Arab allies for not showing more support for Gaddafi," said a Western diplomat in Moscow. To correct that impression perhaps, Pravda printed an interview with the maverick Libyan last week, in which he gave lavish thanks to Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev for his support. Nevertheless, the Soviets remain wary about attaching themselves too closely to a Libyan regime that is mercurial at best. Moscow zestfully pounced on the opportunity to denounce Washington's "barbaric act of terrorism," adding that the U.S. had lost not one plane in the raid, as claimed, but at least four...