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Parts of the farm economy are doing well. Pig producers are thriving: demand is strong because herd size was cut last year and feed is cheap because of the grain glut. Dairy farmers stay fat at Government expense. The USDA will buy dairy products for 13.10 per Ib. no matter how low the market price drops. Such purchases this year will amount to $2 billion, or about $10,000 for every U.S. dairy farmer. The result is heaps of cheese and butter, paid for by taxpayers, 270 million lbs. of which the Government will give away this year...
...father's favorite quote was from the Bible," Democratic Senatorial Candidate Mark Dayton, 35, told voters at a Minnesota pig roast. "To whomsoever much has been given, of him shall much be required." There is no doubt that to Dayton much has been given. Married to a Rockefeller and heir to a department-store fortune, he is dispensing large chunks of his assets (estimated as high as $30 million) to unseat Republican David Durenberger, 48, in November...
...help companies set up shop in the Third World, OPIC shares the costs of feasibility studies, makes and guarantees loans and sponsors foreign tours. Barco International Inc., an Ohio-based agribusiness firm, discovered the largest pig herds in Southeast Asia on a trip to Thailand in July and plans to build a slaughterhouse there. After the same trip, Hawaiian Holiday Macadamia Nut Co. decided to invest $9 million there to grow cashews and macadamia nuts and to produce chocolate candy...
SINCE THE DAY he was first elected Mayor of New York in 1977, Ed Koch has tried to do to his city what Ronald Reagan is now doing to the country. Even while economists were attacking the newly elected president last year for using America as a guinea pig in his supply-side experiment. The Wall Street Journal quietly pointed out in editorials that Reaganomics has already been applied in New York by Koch. Last week, the mayor was defeated in an expensive state-wide gubernatorial primary that few expected him to lose, which suggests that after five years...
...Spanish Fiat) dubbed Rocinante, the newly elevated monsignor and his Communist companion Sancho set out for Madrid, a city that neither has seen for many years. Like Spain itself since the death of the Generalissimo, these innocents hurtle into the 20th century with ingenuous vigor. Feasting on suckling pig in Madrid's toniest restaurant or visiting the Valley of the Fallen, Spain's grandiose monument to its Civil War dead, the compañeros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest veers toward an ecumenical...