Word: yeutter
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Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter argues that in the heavily subsidized competition for world food sales, the U.S. must not "disarm unilaterally" by abruptly abandoning Government farm supports. Yeutter and George Bush are relying instead on negotiated worldwide reductions in farm subsidies. The subject is expected to produce much talk -- and little progress -- at this week's Houston summit of the seven major industrialized democracies...
None of this has gone unnoticed. In 1988, with trade representative Clayton Yeutter screaming loudest, the Reagan Administration declared U.S. sugar policy an abomination and tried unsuccessfully to change it. As Bush's Agriculture Secretary, Yeutter has apparently flipped. The Administration's proposed farm-program reforms leave sugar policy intact...
...denies this trait vehemently, thinking it Carteresque.) He reads the papers each morning in bed, clipping and underlining things that catch his eye, and later sends copies to aides for follow-up. On the show, Bush's eyes may have seemed to glaze over when Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter presented him with a copy of the new farm bill, but the President is more able than most politicians to argue the finer points of crop subsidies. There was a brief glimpse of Bush hunt-and- pecking on an electric typewriter, but the script failed to make clear that he comes...