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by Scott McCull
United Press International
WASH INGTON — President
Reagan said he is not really con
cerned about his drop in public
opinion polls,
“1 don’t think those people
(polled) voted for me anyway,”
said Reagan with a smile during
a picture taking session in the
Cabinet Room before the start
of the meeting with GOP lieute
nants from Capitol Hill.
“Are you concerned about
your drop in the polls?” a repor
ter asked.
“Not really,” the president re
plied.
Two polls released Wednes
day reveal Reagan’s standing
with the American people has
plunged to a new low.
A Washington Post-ABC
News survey taken Jan. 18-23
found that 54 percent of those
questioned disapprove of
Reagan’s handling of the pres
idency and 42 percent approve
of his performance — a negative
shift of 1 7 points since October.
And for the first time, a majority
of 54 percent said he is going too
far in plans to boost military
spending, and 52 percent said
he is going too far in cutting
back social programs.
And a New York Times-CBS
poll, conducted Jan. 16-19, show
47 percent disapprove of the
way Reagan is handling his job
and 41 percent approve.
Deputy press secretary Larry
Speakes noted lower mid-term
ratings for presidents are a “his
toric trend” and predicted they
will rise. He said Reagan’s per
sonal popularity remains high
and said he did not think the
speech will have much impact on
the polls.
He also said Reagan intends
to stick with his economic plan
and to defend his military buil
dup despite attacks on high
military spending by key Repub
lican leaders.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
bumper stickers inspired by the
oil and gasoline shortages of the
1970s presented the idea in its
simplest terms: “a bushel of
wheat for a barrel of oil.”
Today, a trade concept being
advanced by one Farm Belt con
gressman is similar, but the
mechanics are more complex.
Rep. Cooper Evans, R-Iowa,
just back from a week-long visit
to Nigeria, is trying to help
arrange a modern barter system
to boost U.S. grain sales to the
African nation by building up
American purchases of Nige
rian oil.
“What we’re talking about is
not an exchange per se — so
many bushels of corn for so
many barrels of oil,” Evans said.
Instead, he said, the prop
osed project calls for the United
States to buy about $35 million
of oil from Nigeria. In return,
the Nigerians would spend $35
million to import American
grain.
The arrangement would
offer mutual benefits, Evans
said, noting that the United
States would use up some of its
vast grain surpluses and gener
ate more income and better
prices for American farmers.
At the same time, Nigeria
would earn the money needed
to buy more food for its citizens,
he said.
The role of the federal gov
ernment in the arrangement
would be minimal, Evans said.
He said that private businesses
would arrange the sales.
The idea is still under discus
sion, and no decisions on
whether to proceed are likely for
several more months, Evans
said.
“There are considerably
more details to be worked out,”
he said. “They will have to de
cide whether they want to do
this. Companies here want to,
but the Nigerian government
must decide whether they want
to go ahead.”
He said the barter arrange-
appli<
parts of the world, especially in
developing countries.
Agriculture Secretary John
Block has added his endorse
ment to the concept, describing
barter as an acceptable method
of helping expand exports of
American agricultural products.
“Any way that we can move
grain and get reasonable com
pensation for it, we certainly
would not be opposed to that,”
Block said.
“I’ve talked to many members
of co-ops and some industry
people, private industry, that
have been working on different
barter schemes of grain for oil or
grain for some other minerals,”
he said. “There’s some hope for
it. It’s very difficult, this barter
ing process; but where it can be
done, it should be done.”
Evans characterizes Nigeria
as well-suited to participation in
a barter arrangement with the
United States.
“Nigeria is the most promis
ing nation in Africa for our agri
cultural markets,” he sai
ing that its 90 millionmj
make up one-quarter of MK.
tire African population. H
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in feeding its people intht*^
ahead,” he adds. "Butthe
stricted now in what thfEw
take from us.”
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change of U.S. grain foi
rian oil have been accomp
by a Nigerian grain firm!J
mitment to buy 2 millionki
of Iowa corn, Evans said.ij
past, that firm has notb
corn imports.
The Nigerians also a
to arrange a venture?
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facilities in their capitalb
Lagos as part of an eft
modernize graiiHj
methods, he said. Bv
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LINDEN, N.J. — Union
County ordered its sheriffs de
puties to county schools for mass
fingerprinting of schoolchil
dren. The kids had done no
thing wrong, but they were
undergoing frightful punish
ment by the looks on their faces.
A crying Luke Brophy, 3,
cringed and tried to wipe his
eyes with ink-stained hands af
ter a uniformed sheriff s officer
pressed the child’s tiny fingers to
a printed form.
His mother, standing beside
him, tried to reassure him, but
the tears continued. Betty Ann
Brophy, 34, of Linden, hoped,
along with hundreds of other
parents, that having a record of
her child’s fingerprints might
help track him if he ever dis
appeared.
“This program really doesn’t
make me feel a whole lot safer,”
she said. “But it is comforting to
know that I’ve done something
to ensure his return if some
thing does happen.”
Union County officials, who
began the voluntary program
Tuesday at St. Elizabeth’s
School, said most of the county’s
44,000 students will have their
prints recorded by sprint’
“Too many children an
sing and never identified
John J. Troiano, a c
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children.”
More than lOpercentob
million youngsters who
appear each year are:
found, and more than6,OH
identified bodies are
each year.
Troiano, who devised
identification system Iasi
said the prints will be hj
pa re n t s a n d e n te red in FBI
puters in Washington,
should the child be
abducted, or run away.
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the state has asked forinft
tion and indicated they
considering similar progfi
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