European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Reagan Calls for farm policy changes Santa up president Reagan blamed discredited government programs saturday for the financial troubles of american Farmers and called for legislation to help agriculture stand on its own feet with Congress struggling to write a new farm Bill by Reagan urged Ameri cans in his weekly radio address to Send their lawmakers an unmistakable message that change in our farm policy is not Only but speaking from his Mountaintop Reagan reinforced earlier White House warn Ings that he is prepared to use his veto pen to torpedo budget busting legislation designed to ease farm problems with More Federal our administration has spent More on the farm program than any other administration in he if spending More Money on agriculture would solve the we already would have solved it by in the sixth full Day of a three week said the Cost of the Federal farm program has soared to almost billion since 1981 More than triple the amount spent in the previous four in the government bought less than 1 percent of All Dairy products for about in he the govern ment was forced to take 12 percent of the Market at a Cost exceeding after placing the Economy on a course that has controlled the costs borne by farm Reagan the other half of the Job is to free ourselves from the quagmire Cre ated by Federal farm the depressed state of the farm Reagan can be traced to a variety of problem croplands total farm acres in millions of acres surplus highly erosive 78 6 soybean 61 8 that would have to be idled to support prices without a Stock buildup Chicago Tribune graphic source department of agriculture Dartmouth sorority on probation Gay students harassed at Aid dance up a Dart Mouth College sorority is on social Proba Tion for failing to intervene on behalf of homosexual students who were doused with Beer and harassed at a live Aid dance for actor Rock Alpha Chi Omega will not be allowed to serve alcohol on its premises until 1 and has been ordered to hold a series of educational workshops to promote under standing of minorities because of the 2 the workshops will be conducted with the assistance of the Gay students Assoc a whose members attended a dance billed As live Aid a tribute to Rock members of the association filed a complaint against the sorority after they attended the dance and were showered with Beer and harassed by a male guest while they were dancing the disciplinary action was announced the dance was a play on the recent live Aid concert to raise Money for african famine Relief and the disclosure that Rock Hudson is suffering from acquired immune deficiency Many aids victims Are homosexual sororities and fraternities at the Ivy league College Are supposed to intervene if members or guests break College rules on their said John Dart Mouths assistant Dean of residential David one of the homosexual said the sorority sparked the Inci Dent with a provocative poster in unspeakably bad taste to announce the the homosexual students went to the party to show Unity and Pride in the face of said Michael president of the Gay student Catie president of the said in a letter of apology published in the Dartmouth that the poster was intended to be merely a tasteless play on she said sorority members took Down the of fending poster after other students com Martin said Friday the sorority also had an expert on aids lecture its it was a terrible thing that Hap she the Gay student association also filed a complaint against the student who allegedly showered members with the complaint will be heard by the committee on made up of students and faculty new estimates for ship construction lower projected Cost of arms buildup Washington a thanks to a previously reported reduction in the Cost of building two nuclear the Overall estimated Cost of president reagans re armament program has declined slightly Over the past three months to the defense department the new which includes the 93 a University president Dies Cincinnati a Walter Lan who served 16 years As president of the University of has died at Langsam served As the University 17th president from 1955 to he previously was president of Gettysburg College in get and Wagner lutheran College of Staten Langsam also authored is including the world since major weapons programs that form the heart of the reflects a decline of million from a March 31 estimate of the Pentagon most of that was attributed to contract under runs on the construction of two nuclear powered aircraft carriers the Lincoln and the George the which Are not to enter service until 1990 and Are run Ning under and Are also benefiting from lower the Pentagon Congress has already directed that the Money be applied to the my missile pro thereby reducing the amount of new appropriations required for the the Only program showing an increase in estimated Cost was another involving communications a comprehensive upgrade of the worldwide military command and control that program is now expected to Cost up the new figures Are contained in these elected acquisition a quarterly study required by the reports Are designed to provide Only a Broad gauge of How Well the Pentagon is doing in managing its weapons they do not reflect the fact that two major the air forces Omraam air to air missile and the army sergeant York Ai defense Are in the midst of reexamination that could change their Cost Florida editor Dies at 89 Daytona a Herbert Marc editor and pub Lisher of the Daytona Beach new journal whose journalism career began before world War has died at the age of including the shocks of the seven tics Grain double digit inflation and record interest but a major contributor to the he is the Federal program designed to help assailing interventionist commodity programs that have encouraged banners to overproduce and look to the government to buy up their Reagan declared the answer to our farm problems cannot be found in sticking with discredited pro Grams and increasing government the answer can Only be found in our ability to help our entire agriculture Industry to stand on its own feet in eager to sign historic legislation thai will put american agriculture on a sound course for the he in writing farm 1 expect the con Gress to stay within its own its own budget the government projected 12 that Farmers will Harvest a record billion bushels of Corn and a near record Bil lion bushels of soybeans this that Cre ates the Prospect of further distress in the farm Belt that is Likely to increase pressure on Congress to approve Large government subsidies As a new farm Bill is agriculture Secretary John Block Drew the Battle lines in those deliberations earlier this month by warning Congress to hold the line on the unsuccessful in its efforts to prevent the Cost of the Federal farm program from has pro posed deep cuts for the next few 4 die in Nebraska As trucks collide a a trac to trailer swerved to miss a crossed an interstate median and slammed into an oncoming killing two people in each state police the eastbound lanes of interstate 80 were closed for hours after the which occurred about Friday near the Western Nebraska town of Suther the Nebraska state patrol police identified the dead As Scott my of West and Lyn Sie of who were in one and Franklin and Beverly Ridge of who were in the other Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today 1945 while Allied representatives in Manila awaited the japanese surrender Tokyo broadcast throughout the Orient its own version of the terms As if Many of them already had been 30 years ago today 1955 actor George the first Friendly witness before the House Una Merican activities testified about the operations of a Broad Way cell of actors whom he described As 20 years ago today 1965 a space Agency offi Cial at Cape said that the problems have been resolved and that All systems Are ready for the Blastoff of Gemi ni5 scheduled later to years ago today 1975 two Manhattan stockholders have filed a suit contending that Howard Hughes is Hughes spokesman Richard Hanna in los Angeles said the billionaire is
