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...President unfolded a state paper that had few precedents in U.N. or U.S. history. He blasted those countries (i.e., the Soviets and satellites) that would undermine the U.N. for their own ends, renewed his call for disarmament talks, detailed an elaborate program to aid Africa, proposed a plan to safeguard outer space against military use, sounded again and again the U.S. support of Hammarskjold and U.N. policies in Africa (see box). When he finished, most delegates again warmly applauded him, while the Communists sat on their hands...
...Dakota is traditionally Republican territory). A week before, at Guthrie Center, Iowa, Nixon had laid out the first half of his farm program, "Operation Consume," designed to shrink present farm surpluses by increasing consumption of farm products (TIME, Sept. 26). At Sioux Falls he unwrapped the second half, "Operation Safeguard," designed to forestall future buildups of surpluses...
...safeguard" against future surpluses, Nixon's program would rely heavily on a proposal that New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller urged back in late 1959: greatly expanding the "conservation reserve" (land taken out of crop production and planted to grass or trees). During a "transition period," while Operation Consume plus the expanded conservation reserve gradually cut back surpluses, Nixon would use a combination of price supports and acreage controls to cope with major problem crops such as wheat-a Democratic-style program of the type that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson opposes.* But once markets for farm products...
This week in South Dakota, Nixon promised to spell out the second half of his program: "Operation Safeguard," designed to prevent the production of more farm surpluses while "Operation Consume" eats up the plenty that the U.S. already...
...effective in the age of ballistic missiles and nuclear destruction, the Thors must be capable of nearly instant action. But to avoid a calamitous mis take, there must be every possible safeguard. The actual procedure for ordering the launching of a Thor missile has both speed and precautions...