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...Communism it has never yet managed to grow enough food or raw materials for its needs. In 1963, after four straight years of disappointing harvests, the farm problem came to a head with a disastrous crop failure that forced Russia's leaders to buy $935 million worth of wheat from the capitalists they vowed to bury...
Kennedy's espousal of the doctrine of peaceful coexistence, his negotiation of the wheat-trade deal with the USSR, his introduction of federal civil rights legislation, and his "management" of the news, were cited by Bunker as instances of Communist influence...
...AGRICULTURE. Johnson is plumping for yet more Administration "supply management." He offered no really new proposals, left the specifics to Congress. Clearly plowed under: the past Administration warnings that the farmer had erred in defeating mandatory, high-support controls in last May's wheat referendum and how would be left to his own devices. He did recommend voluntary controls and price supports for potatoes, one of the few freely marketable basic crops left in the national larder. And to the consternation of many, Johnson called for a return to part of the controversial and soundly defeated plan proposed...
...billion cut in agriculture spending is partially based on the fact that wheat farmers, who rejected strict Government production control in a referendum last May, will receive lower price supports. This will save the budget $528 million. But it will cost the farmers the same amount-and in an election year that adds up to a heap of lost income. Even now the Administration is trying to push through voluntary controls that, if passed, would add hundreds of millions of dollars to the budget...
...lead was played by John Goldmark, 46, a Harvard law graduate with a prosperous Okanogan Valley wheat, beef and quarter-horse ranch he bought after getting out of the Navy in 1945. He had been handily elected three times to the state legislature in Olympia, where he rose to chairman of the house ways and means committee. His wife Sally had been a Communist Party member from 1935 until a year after their marriage in 1942, a fact that became public during Goldmark's 1962 re-election campaign...