Word: staley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that assurance, President Oren Lee Staley of the militant National Farmers Organization last week announced what everyone in the building had come to cheer-a strike against food processors to force higher prices for many farm products. "This is a battle for survival of family-type agriculture," said Staley...
...American farmers have retreated as far as they can. We do not intend to retreat any further." Staley heads an organization that, since its founding in 1955, has enlisted an estimated 180,000 families and become the nation's fourth largest farm group-after the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Grange and the National Farmers Union. With branches in 16 states, the N.F.O.'s center of strength is among Iowa's dirt farmers...
...Subsidies. The guiding principle of the N.F.O. is that the U.S. farm mess can be solved only by farmers' taking union-style action, even to the point of striking against the food processors. Staley admits that such strikes, if successful, would raise retail food prices; but he argues that the U.S. taxpayer would find the increase well worth it. Reason: if the farmer were protected by contracts achieved through collective bargaining, there would be no need for the Government to fork out billions of dollars in subsidy payments...
American advisors finally came to grips this fall with the fact of Diem's despotism and his general unpopularity. As a result of missions to survey the situation, Stanford economist Eugene Staley and presidential advisor General Maxwell Taylor strongly recommended political and social reforms as well as increased military assistance. But at this first serious suggestion of reform the government-controlled newspapers (whose front pages are often totally blank to indicate censorship) came out with as scathing an indictment of American "interference" as could ever be heard in a Communist press...
...Starts. In the past Diem has stubbornly refused to accept U.S. advice in dealing with his countrymen. But the lesson of Laos and the new urgency of the U.S. Administration seem to have changed him. Every recommendation in the Staley report has already received his concurrence in advance...