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...Administration was against the dairy and grain subsidy increases. But representatives from Midwestern farm states were defiant, partly because the White House had earlier agreed to maintain subsidies on sugar, peanuts and tobacco as a way of gaining Southern Democratic votes for its economic package. In fact, resentment over those deals led to a breakdown of the traditional backscratching among Southern and Midwestern Representatives. After winning their grain and dairy supports, most Midwesterners joined other Congressmen to defeat a package of sugar and peanut programs that had been passed by the Senate. Caught between principles and promises, the Administration stood...
House Democratic leaders, clearly delighted by the unraveling of the Administration's deal with the Southern conservatives, went along with the elimination of sugar and peanut protection. But then came a vote on the tobacco allotment program, which allows only certain landowners to grow the crop. North Carolina Democrats, who had not cut any deals with President Reagan on the economic package, persuaded their party to stick with them. Representative Charles Rose argued that he and his fellow Democrats would be politically crushed at home by the state's powerful Republican Senator Jesse Helms if they let down...
...women's lightweight crew team are extremely fond of M and Ms, of all skinnifying foods. On the weekend of October 11, the members of the crew selected to compete in the Women's Invitational Regatta in South Hadley. Conn., were treated to bags and bags of peanut and plain M and Ms because, as senior captain SUZANNE HASSEL says. "After weigh-in, anything is game for eating." The crew, which has 130 pounds as a maximum weight limit, usually is chaned to cans of tuna fish and Tab in the spring to meet the scale's demands--and that...
...Democratic Party of Jimmy Carter that paved the way for Reagan's victory. It was Carter and the Democrats who whipped up an anti-Soviet fever with the hypocritical "human rights" campaign. It was under the Peanut Boss that the resurgent Klan and Nazis executed the Greensboro massacre. And it was this "friend of labor" who slapped striking miners with the Taft-Hartley injunction in 1978. That's why we call on workers to break with the Democrats and build a workers party to fight for a workers government...
Picnic lunches ranged from peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to three-course meals served on white tablecloths. Sipping imported wine from crystal goblets, Maria Siciliano of Wellesley College described the day as "nice and decadent...