The Sound of Spring and the Farmer’s Voice
A Southern Illinois Agriculture Section reflects on farming’s meaning in society, profiling farmers like Frank Jacquot Jr. and Edwin Eddleman, and noting pride, faith, and optimism alongside fears of corporate takeovers. The piece argues the farmer’s perspective illuminates national understanding as spring arrives.
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Illinois
North America
Brad Berker
Job
Frank Jacqu
America
Bean
P.L. Parr
Time and Haig deifying Reagan's vicar
Anthony Lewis critiques Time magazine's hagiographic portrayal of Alexander Haig as Secretary of State. The piece argues press adulation masks policy gaps in El Salvador, Africa, and East-West affairs, noting delayed staffing, premature rhetoric, and unclear strategy. It contrasts vigorous talk with actual policy and warns against equating strength with militaristic posturing.
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Anthony Lewis
New York Times
Pravda
Leonid Brezhnev
Time Magazine
Alexander M. Haig, Jr
Nixon
Carter
Reagan
Haig
State Department
William Clark
Edward Rowny
Rowny
Cyrus Vance
White House
Vance
Washington
el Salvador
Europe
Latin America
Congress
Brezhnev
Africa
South Africa
Angola
Time
London
Paris
Bonn
Thomas E. Dewey
Should the United States adopt a Human Life Amendment
A reader argues for a Human Life Amendment based on fetal life from conception, citing medical milestones and abortion methods. The letter challenges pro abortion views, critiques rape exceptions, IUD and pill bans, and urged weighing the mass killing claim versus emotion in deciding on the HLA.
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Southern Illnoisan
National Organization of Women’s Booth
University Mall
Leslie Brown-Kanter
Southern Illinoisan
National Organization of Women
U.S
Helms
Hlas
National Women’s Health Network
A.H. Robbins Co
Food and Drug Administration
NWHN
Safety net under Reagan plan targets elderly, cuts aid for the poor
The piece outlines how seven programs labeled as the social safety net would be preserved for the elderly and veterans while deep cuts target welfare programs like Aid to Families with Dependent Children, food stamps, and Medicaid. It cites Stockman and Brady, notes about 23 percent of those below the poverty line receive no aid, and discusses impacts on working mothers and children through food stamps, school meals, Head Start, and summer jobs.
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David E. Rosenbaum
New York Times
Washington
Reagan
David A. Stockman
Office of Management and Budget
Stockman
Congress
Project On Food Assistance and Poverty
The
Field Foundation
University of Chicago Center For the Study of Welfare Policy
Chicago Center
Thomas C.W. Joe
Nixon
Brady
Veterans Administration
Safety net programs aid millions beyond the poor
The three largest programs Social Security Medicare and veterans benefits provide payments totaling about 200 billion in 1982. Social Security supports 20.5 million aged 65 and older plus dependents and survivors with average couple payments around 9600 annually. Medicare payments top 46 billion for mainly nonpoor seniors, while veterans benefits include 9.6 billion in disability compensation and 4 billion in pensions for about 2 million veterans and survivors.
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New York Times
Social Security
Reagan
Social Security Administration
Medicare
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