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...deeds of destruction. Barns have burned in the night, livestock buying stations have been bombed, truck drivers have been stopped and threatened at road blocks, roadside snipers have fired out of the dark at speeding trucks, and at least one market-bound highway route has been sabotaged with a plank bristling with broken sickle blades. In Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota there is talk of calling out the National Guard...
...MEDICARE. The Democrats plug for hospital care for older Americans under the social security program. The Republican medicare plank urges "tax credits and other methods of assistance" to help needy senior citizens meet the costs of medical and hospital insurance...
...GOVERNMENT SPENDING. Citing the goal of "a balanced budget in a balanced economy," the plank pledges to "continue a frugal government, getting a dollar's value for a dollar spent." The G.O.P. plank promised a reduction of "not less than $5 billion" in the present spending level...
...strengthen farm income; expansion of food stamp, school-lunch and other surplus-food programs, along with research into new uses for farm products; community programs and agricultural cooperatives "to assure rural America decent housing, economic security, and full partnership in the building of the great society." The corresponding G.O.P. plank stressed a hands-off policy by the Fed eral Government, promised farmers the "maximum opportunity to exercise their own management decisions," while resisting imposition of further federal controls and "all efforts to make the farmer dependent, for his economic survival, upon either compensatory payments by the Federal Government, or upon...
...PEACE. "The search for peace requires the utmost intelligence, the clearest vision, and a strong sense of reality," warn the Democrats. "Responsible leadership, unafraid but refusing to take needless risk, has turned the tide in freedom's favor." Said the G.O.P. plank: "A dynamic strategy aimed at victory-pressing always for initiative for freedom, rejecting always appeasement and withdrawal-reduces the risk of nuclear...