Word: rural
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This message is, to say the least, a strong discouragement to upward striving. The urban or rural youngster, the immigrant, the dropout already look at the library, the research library, with awe. Unless encouraged to use these facilities, these tools of upward mobility, they willnever even approach them, and simply regard libraries, research, higher education, as part of the "other world" and those who are a part of this other world as enemies. The final discouragement would be to say "you're not going to want to use this anyway. So what if we charge a fee to those...
Farm Bill. In his budget-cutting fervor, Reagan has proposed slashing or eliminating entirely a bale of venerable farm-aid programs. For example, he proposes moderating commodity price supports for most farm products, abolishing some special programs like peanut acreage allotments, and pulling the plug on the Rural Electrification Administration. As chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Jesse Helms of North Carolina has junked the Administration's farm bill in favor of his own, more expensive version; the House Agriculture Committee, meanwhile, has endorsed a bill that, complains a White House aide, "totally disregards what Reagan wanted." The Administration...
Whether constituents agree with Reagan's plans or not, they are clearly stirred up and eager to sound off to their elected representatives. "The action out there is more than I've ever seen," said Republican Congressman Robin Beard after sweeping through the rural portion of his Tennessee district. "I have more people in my courthouse meetings than ever. They are concerned and worried and want to know what is going to happen...
Democratic Candidate Johnie A. Rodebush stressed religious faith and told voters he feels a lump in his throat every time he hears the national anthem. It was not enough. Nonetheless, Rodebush looked like a liberal in Michigan's mostly rural Fourth Congressional District, which had three times elected David Stockman, now the President's program-slashing budget director. In fact, Stockman's own choice, John L. Globensky, his former campaign manager and a similarly obdurate conservative, was rejected by voters in the March 24 primary. The man who beat him, and who last week swamped Rodebush...
Moscow had plenty to kick about. Two weeks ago, the Kania government promised official recognition to Rural Solidarity, an 800,000-member independent farmers' union. At the same time, some 500 rank-and-file Polish Communists were allowed to hold a heretical meeting at Torun to demand greater democratization within the party. As if that were not enough to exasperate the Kremlin, Polish leaders continued to pursue a conciliatory policy toward the independent trade union federation. That policy was reflected in the government's proposed agenda for talks with Solidarity that resumed at week's end. Though...