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Rather than stir up Congress, which in recent years has been increasingly reluctant to subsidize farmers, the Administration is banking on a wheat farmers' referendum coming up late this spring. In that vote the farmers will be given a Hobson's choice between 1) increased Government controls on what they may plant, or 2) doing without Government supports. By this method the Administration hopes to pay more for wheat but get less of it, to reduce production by 150 million bushels. The Government is already stockpiling 1.2 billion bushels of the stuff...
Solomons declared that this is "a question not only of free speech, but of the rights of the citizens of the city to the proper use of the school property." He warned that "a meeting of this kind might stir up such excitement that the property of the City would be in danger...
...past 14 years have died in a senseless and uncoordinated fury that no one seems able to end. The butchery is so much a part of national life that many Colombians have learned to ignore it. Last week a powerful new book, La Violencia en Colombia, was creating a stir in Bogotá. It attempts to understand the killing, measure its costs, and bring Colombians face-to-face with the bloody, bitter consequences...
...reform along the basic lines that Mills advocates. President Kennedy in a TV speech last year promised "long-needed tax reform that logic and equity demand." But tax reform is a brambly issue for a politician to grab hold of. Any tampering with tax privileges is bound to stir up angry opposition...
...long enough, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant decided to act. His instrument for "reconciliation"' is known simply as "The Plan," a four-part program drawn up last August and designed to force Tshombe to bring his mineral-rich province back into the Congo. Fortnight ago, Thant decided to stir up some action. Off to Britain, Belgium, Portugal and South Africa went letters urging a boycott on the copper and cobalt that earn some $200 million in foreign exchange for Katanga's giant Union Miniere each year. Most merely shrugged. Then, Adoula wrote to 17 nations urging them...