European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday october 8, 1985 columns Carl Rowan Consumers when yol into the super Markei Over the weekend Anil paid a plus for a half gallon of milk. 52 fur a Pound of butter and a hefty Lio f or Wallet for a chunk of cheese were Antt aware that you May he both .1 and a casualty in one of Washington s Hnit est wars the a Nagari administration inc con Gress a battalion of lobbyists and a Host of consumer Organ a inns arc locked in com Bat Over a 1985 Bill. And no Battle in that War is hotter than the one Over How much Money you and i arc going to Fork Over to guarantee the Prosperity of the nation s Dairy Farmers. No debate is More emotional than this one Over whether o go on i costly props for inc Dairy Industry if it Means that Uncle Sam will have to reduce the amount of Dairy products available to families on food Stamps and youngsters who depend on the school lunch and breakfast programs. This Battle Over the Dairy provisions of inc farm Bill has produced the strangest collection of bedfellows that i have seen in my 25 years in Washington. Consumer activists and liberals arc siding with the Rea Gan administration against democrats like rep. Tony Coelho of California his parly s whip at Large. They say that the Dairy lob by s political action committees have shelled out enough Campaign donations to get the House agriculture committee to pass a horrible Bill. Coelho and others arc saying that it is an outrage that liberals who for five years have fought off Reagan Alt pts to mangle or destroy nutrition programs for the poor pregnant women and Chil Dren should now be suckered by a Reagan administration claim that by cutting Dairy supports it will become the Savior of the hungry and poor. Now let me Back up and Tell you Why this bitter War Over Federal support for the Dairy Industry is so important. To put it bluntly if Overall farm support programs have been an abomination the provisions relating to the Dairy Industry have been a plague. Consider this in a nation with millions of hungry Chil Dren malnourished pregnant women weak and needy jobless adults at the beginning of fiscal year 1985 the commodity credit William Buckley May be the ones who will get milked Kin Jill at to be jul or w corporation had an inventory of 559 Mil lion pounds of butter 1.1 billion pounds of cheese and 1.7 billion pounds of nonfat dry milk. This was $4.1 billion Worth of Dairy products Bough to prop up farm income and much of this inventory has rotted be fore it could be Given to hungry people or fed to hogs. A study done for Public voice a Citi ens group monitoring food and health policy concluded thai the annual interest com on the Dairy products inventory is approximately s300 million and storage and handling costs arc s346.4 that is outrageous on its face. But what to do about it ? the Reagan administration has a plan to Cut Dairy supports and give the marketplace a Chance to work against such wasteful surpluses. The Democrat controlled House agriculture committee has approved a complicated thing that co Echo Calls the Dairy Unity Bill. Most of the Unity so far seems to be behind he Reagan proposals. John Bode the assistant Secretary of agriculture for food and consumer services assailed by the Coelho Side As a foe of food programs came to me with these assertions the Chi who Bill would push up the Cost of milk while the Reagan plan would reduce it. Over the next five Jears the cod to Bill would increase Federal food assistance i a, by More than $2.3 billion and would sharply reduce the number of women infants and children who could be served in the wic program the number of school children who could be fed. And by 1990 would take $561 million away trom the food stamp program Coelho says the Reagan plan would push a lot of Dairy Farmers Down the Drain and accuses Rode of trying to inspire a fight Between americans who Are getting food assistance and Farmers. For once the Reagan administration is on the right Side with the Jim Olin / Bob Michel amendment says Ellen Haas executive director of Public voice which is one of More than 30 organizations in crimp coalition to reduce inflated milk prices that is escalating publicly its opposition to the Coelho Bill. Next time you buy milk remember that it s you they la be milking if Congress makes the wrong Choice. Lessons earned in Grenada must Nof be forgotten reps. Newt Gingrich r-ga., and Ike Skelton d-mo., have come up with a very Bright idea to which end they Are foraging for support from their colleagues. It is to ordain the week of oct. 20-26 the lessons of Grenada already they have close to 200 Signa Tures. It is disconcerting How a gratefully we Deal with inc lilt a lodes of vital information we come upon. We arc a nation whose tradition called on us to remember the Alamo and As recently As a generation ago to remember Pearl Harbor. Although it was Only two years ago that it All happened we Haven t Fullil now heard a voice enjoining us to remember ? Grenada is infinitely interesting. Begin Only with inc historical Point. It is the first country Ever substantially controlled by the soviet Union Hal has been emancipated. Indeed if we Are at All optimistic about the future we May indulge ourselves in the thought that future generations will Point to Grenada As the High Watermark of soviet imperialism even As historians Point to tier As the westernmost Point of the mongol invasion arrested in the 13lh Century. All the More significant if we remind our selves of the Brezhnev doctrine. It is the one that reads idiomatic ally what is ours is permanently ours what is yours is up for grabs a More formal version of the Brezhnev doctrine is that the entire socialist world As they style themselves is committed to the of socialism read communism wherever it is established. By the rules of the Brezhnev doctrine Grenada should not have been allowed to happen. That much is easy to remember. The Call for i week devoted to n study of the lessons of Grenada acknowledges that there is much More to consider than merely the Bare historical episode. And the reason for this is that when the marines landed in Grenada two years ago they discovered documents that give us a most extraordinary detailed account of How it is hat the soviet Union goes about colonizing a Little country with the Aid of fellow travellers. Under the sponsorship of the state department and inc Usia two scholars Michael la Den and Herbert Romerstein were deputized to try to put together in manageable size a Cross Section of those documents their purpose being to Tell us or to remind us of the kind of things the soviets do when they arc engaged in colonizing. The Book that grew out of that Effort is called. Grenada documents an overview and selection and is available from the department of stale and the department of defense for si9, do not be shocked by inc Price. Be shocked by the size of the Book. The pagination is nol sequential so that one can Only guess at the num Ber of pages which i would Pul at. Of 1,500. Moreover inc compilers Lell you. In their foreword that they could have Given us another document of equal size and of equal significance so abundant was the documentary haul that gave us memorandums treaties secret plans for expansion the record of foreign activities All the paraphernalia Hal go with the implantation of a communist revolution and then its Extension. The authors summary begins with the sen Lenic the revolution Tinl overthrew the Gairy regime in Grenada in april 1979 was designed to Crealo a com Tunisi society and to bring Grenada into the soviet that is Plain language bul no plainer than what the documents proceed to establish there is even a comprehensive line of March document that was marked confidential and consecutively numbered by hand. Votes. You gel detained when i sign an order. Once i sign u hic to or Don l like in it s up inc Hill for them. Special duties Are assigned to agents u Monitor All sermons with the View to inc controlling of All Hie Rachy sic and there was the grand sense of engagement in an u,k,.�r.c�ada and a m ious Bat Titis going on in go ail the Gigrich Skillon idea is for a week to be Given to debates speeches resolutions High school in clues television and radio shows. The purpose to learn from history. And to remind ourselves that we still control the destiny of the free world. 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