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June 8, 1982
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to local residents
by Susan Dittman
Battalion Staff
Farmers and small business
men are receiving the hardest
blows during the current reces
sion, U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen
told a group of local residents at
a town meeting Saturday.
Bentsen, a Democrat, is seek
ing re-election this year against
Republican nominee U.S. Rep.
Jim Collins. He Fielded ques
tions from citizens on subjects
ranging from illegal alien poli
cies to defense spending.
“We are facing an interest
rate-induced recession,” Bent
sen said.
Small businesses, which em
ploy over half the people in the
United States, cannot aosorb the
high interest rates as large
businesses can, he said, and as a
result, more and more of them
are having to close their doors.
The situation of the farm eco
nomy “is the worst I’ve ever seen
it,” Bentsen said.
“It’s a point of trying to open
up the foreign markets that are
limited to us,” he said.
In a press conference before
the meeting, he suggested that
the United States should enter
into long-term grain trade
agreements with Russia.
Bentsen said that when the
Senate recently approved a
budget package which projected
deficits of $117 billion in 1983
and $64 billion in 1985, he chose
to vote for the defeated budget
proposal which called for a $ 103
billion deficit in 1983 and a ba
lanced budget in 1985.
He said he sees no solution to
the problem of escalating medic- j"
al costs although Congressional
hearings have been held in
attempts to find one.
Bentsen said he supports
additional aid for the handicap
ped because by helping them,
they will become more self-
supportive, thus saving tax
payers’ money in the long run.
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United Press International
LUBBOCK — A Taiwan gov
ernment official said President
teagan is a prisoner of his own
tale Department and is not
leing allowed to carry out cam-
laign pledges that guaranteed
defensive arms to the island re
public, a newspaper reported.
Dr. James C.Y. Soong, dire-
tor general of the government
information office of the Re
public of China on Taiwan, also
.old Lubbock Avalanche-
journal editor Jay Harris in
Houston that Vice President
|George Bush carried three
“most disturbing” letters from
the Reagan administration in a
recent “detour” to Peking dur
ing a Far East visit.
“The United States not only
violated its own law (the Taiwan
Relations Act), but the Reagan
administration has given the
Communists veto authority over
U.S. foreign policy,” Soong said.
The Taiwan Relations Act
guarantees adequate defensive
arms to Taiwan, but in January,
the Reagan administration
announced it would not sell
Taiwan advanced fighter
planes.
“You have sacrificed your in
terests and your allies’ interests,”
he said. “You actually haven’t
gotten anything in return, ex
cept a bunch of anti-Soviet rhe
toric. That’s all you got.”
Soong, charging that “Mr.
Reagan is not being allowed to
be Mr. Reagan,” said the presi
dent “is a prisoner of certain seg
ments of his own State Depart
ment, (including) some holdov
ers from the Carter administra
tion.
“This is most regrettable,” he
said. “After all, he (Reagan) did
pledge during his campaign,
and later as president, to uphold
the Taiwan Relations Act.”
Soong said Bush, in a recent
trip to Peking, delivered three
letters from the Reagan admi
nistration saying the United
States appreciated attempts by
the Chinese Communists to uni
fy Taiwan with the mainland.
Peking claims Tai wan is a pro
vince of mainland China and has
launched a “peaceful reunifica
tion” campaign to absorb the is
land. Taiwan, which became a
bastion for Chinese Nationalists
after the Communist takeover in
1949, has rebuffed reunifaction
efforts.
Soong said these letters left
the impression that the Reagan
administration felt Peking’s
g eace overture was something to
e seriously considered.
“This amounts to accepting
Peking’s ploy,” he said.
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