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toward approval
of farm credit bill
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House
of Representatives moved toward
approval of a credit bail-out for fi
nancially troubled farmers and their
lenders during a Tuesday session.
By doing this, members of the
House also moved closer to a con
frontation with a veto-minded Presi
dent Reagan.
As several hundred farmers lob
bied on Capitol Hill for more gov
ernment aid, Democratic House
leaders predicted an Af rican famine
relief bill with farm credit amend
ments attached would pass easily
and go to Reagan for his signature
or veto.
Reagan “seems to want the farm
ers to cry ‘uncle’ before he gives
them the help they need,” said
House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill
Jr. O’Neill decided to shortcut nor
mal procedures and send a Senate-
passed version of the bill straight to
the White House.
He said the president “can veto
the farm hill, but he can’t veto the
problem. If we can spend hundreds
of billions putting missiles in the
ground, we can spend half a billion
to put seed in the ground.”
The bill includes several provi
sions easing credit for farmers
Illegal aliens
whose unmanageable debt loads are
preventing them from getting new
loans for spring planting: $100 mil
lion in interest subsidies, $1.85 bil
lion in new loan guarantees and
about $7 billion in immediate ad
vances on crop loans normally not
received until harvest time.
Congressional economists say the
measure’s actual cost to the govern
ment over the next five years will be
about $429 million after loans are
repaid. The administration believes
the cost will be higher, about $1 bil
lion to $2 billion, because of antic
ipated def aults on guaranteed loans.
Senate Majority Leader Robert
Dole, R-Kan., tola a meeting of the
U.S. Feed Grains Council Tuesday:
“Within the next few days we are
? 'oing to lay to rest this so-called
arm credit crisis. “Obviously some
farmers are not going to make it,
and that’s unfortunate. But I don’t
know what the answer is ... I don’t
think there are any.”
Republicans in Congress have
charged that Democrats used the bill
as a vehicle for the farm-credit pro
visions to force Reagan into an em
barrassing and difficult position. But
Democrats contend they merely
want to get aid to farmers as quickly
as possible.
Camp houses
the ‘sneaked in’
Associated Press
MIAMI — A sprawling 36-acre
federal prison complex surrounded
bya double row of barbed wire holds
523 people from 30 countries.
Known as the “Carribean Ellis Is
land,” this facility houses the people
who have tried to sneak into the
United States.
York Evans, a 26-year-old, En
glish-speaking Haitian with a talent
lor painting and poetry has been
held at the Krome North Service
Processing Center for seven months.
“America is freedom,” Evans says.
“I left my country in search of free
dom.”
The inmates at Krome are only a
fraction of the aliens who enter
South Florida and the United States.
The U.S. Border Patrol arrests
about 9,000 “deportable” foreigners
in Florida each year, and most of
them pass through Krome.
More than 125,000 Cubans (led
their homeland in the "Freedom
Flotilla” from the port of Mariel in
1980, and around 100,000 Haitians
have entered the United States in
the past live years, federal officials
guess.
When it was first set up in 1980 on
the site of a former missile base, it
was called the “Krome Refugee
Camp." About 2,500 ref ugees milled
around in hastily erected, yellow-
and-white-striped circus tents. Some
of them came in response to Presi
dent Carter’s promise of an “open
heart" for the newcomers from
Cuba.
^ive years later, the tents have
been replaced by concrete blocks
painted pastel purples and blues.
And the camp is now located in
dusty west Dade County, about 20
miles from downtown Miami.
It costs the federal government
$38 a day per inmate to keep Krome
running.
Outside the large, hangar-like
building where many inmates con
gregate during the day, a reporter
was immediately surrounded by a
crowd of perhaps 100 inmates in
regulation orange jumpsuits who
hoped he could do something about
their plight.
Inside the building, small groups
sat in the library leafing through
copies of National Geographic mag
azine. In the mess hall, they ate
lunch, sitting beneath a large color
mural of a skyscraper-studded,
nighttime Miami skyline, staring at
images of America that most will
never see for themselves.
For, according to government sta
tistics, around 80 percent of illegal
aliens caught entering the United
States eventually accept the govern
ment’s offer of a free ticket home, or
make their way out of the country by
’ their own means.
Once they are detained in a fa
cility such as Krome, some inmates
can qualify for bond, often around
$500, and be released into the com
munity pending a later hearing.
According to the Immigration and
Naturalization Service here, 77 per
cent of them disappear and are
never heard from again.
Immigration officials who run
Krome describe it as a humane
place, where inmates are decently
housed and well fed. They are given
a chance to learn English and other
skills. But its detractors describe it as
a “concentration , camp” because it
imprisons people who are trying to
flee repressive governments.
Police acting ‘out of if
to be given urine tests
, Associated Press
BOST ON — Police officers who
S ear red-eyed, woozy or simply a
: “out of it” will be given surprise
urine tests in the first program of its
kind in the nation aimed at detecting
illicit drug use, the Boston Police De
partment announced Tuesday.
"We’re not going to march into
the station house and shout, ‘Freeze.
Line up. Everyone take a urine
test.’ ” said spokesman Robert
O’Toole. “It won’t be random. But if
someone is acting strange or out of
it, and we’ve been around so we
know what to look for, they will be
asked for a urine sample.”
Gerald Arenberg, executive direc
tor of the American Federation of
Police, called it a “pioneer program,”
and said he had not heard of any
thing similar elsewhere in the na
tion.
Boston police officials said the
1,800-memDer department is not be
set by a major drug problem. The
new program, O’TooJe said, was the
idea of new Commissioner Francis
Roache, whose “key purpose is in
tegrity.”
“We’re not saying we have junkies
driving around in police cruisers,”
O’Toole said. “We’re human like ev
eryone else. Some of our officers use
drugs.
“But we can’t have that. Po
licemen on the road have to make
split-second decisions with a lot of
common sense and a lot of compas
sion.”
When police union officials first
heard about the plan, they said it
sounded like “a witch hunt.” But
when they learned the details, they
said they would not oppose the pro
gram as long as it focused only on of
ficers who clearly appeared to use
drugs.
“We are absolutely against any
random taking of urine or blood
samples,” said Robert Guiney, presi
dent of the 1,500-member Police Pa
trolman’s Association. “But if there
is probable cause that anybody is us
ing drugs, they (the internal affairs
unit) can do what they have to do.”
O’Toole said details of the drug
testing plan are still being worked
out by Roache, who was appointed
by Mayor Raymond Flynn last
month, and his advisers.
O’Toole said, “We have yet to de
cide what measures would be taken
if someone refuses to take a urine
test, and we don’t know what exact,
firm steps will be taken as far as dis
cipline and treatment.
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