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With farm bankruptcies at the highest level since the Great Depression, and crop prices and agricultural incomes at a ten-year low, the nation's farmers are fighting to survive. In Dallas last week, President Reagan announced a grab bag of new federal plans to ease their burden. Speaking to some 5,000 members of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the country's largest farm organization, he said, "Because these are unusual and critical times . . . we don't have to stand around chewing our cud. To the American farmer, let me say, help...
Because they defied the authorities, two French Catholic missionaries languished last week in federal police headquarters in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, while they appealed eight-and ten-year sentences for alleged "incitement to kill." Father Aristides Camio, 41, and Father François Guriou, 40, got into trouble in the jungles of the Amazon basin by advising the impoverished natives that, under the law, they had a claim on land in a rain forest. When the natives hacked out villages, clearing the tangle of trees with machetes, they were attacked by gun squads hired by absentee owners...
Brooks was only the fifth convict executed since Gary Gilmore swaggered to his death before a Utah firing squad in 1977 and ended the de facto ten-year moratorium on capital punishment. Unlike all except one of those recent predecessors, Brooks had not waived his legal appeals, but waged a court fight to the end. In addition, he was the first black put to death since 1967 and the first U.S. prisoner ever legally killed by intravenous injection. With the death-row census now above 1,100 and rising annually by more than 100, it seemed that the pace...
...those who predominate in this Administration-would argue that the U.S. must protect the MX with antimissile missiles. That would mean drastically renegotiating, and probably abrogating, the 1972 SALT II treaty limiting Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defenses. That pact, which is of indefinite duration and is currently undergoing its ten-year review in Geneva, is the only strategic nuclear arms accord still formally in force between the superpowers. Its collapse, combined with the erosion of the tacit, increasingly fragile regulation of offensive weapons that now exists, would very likely mark the end of arms control and the beginning...
...verdict closed the government's case against Prime, but opened the door to some troubling questions. Did Prime work alone or did he have an accomplice? Are other Soviet spies still at large within British intelligence? How did he slip past four security checks within a ten-year period? Barred by British law from discussing the case during the trial, both the press and opposition members of Parliament last week demanded a full explanation from the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Scoffed the Daily Express: "Our surveillance system is reduced to a laughing stock. What has a Soviet...