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Agriculture groups ask Congress for fewer regulations
□ Proposed farm bill
would protect small
farms.
LUBBOCK(AP) — Agricul
ture groups asked a congres
sional committee Tuesday to
write a farm bill that diminish
es regulation, cuts their taxes
and enhances the export poten
tial of U.S. crops.
“Clearly, change is needed,”
Texas Agriculture Commissioner
Rick Perry told the panel. “This
change must be carefully orches
trated so that we don’t impair our
ability to produce food and fiber
and our ability to compete in the
international marketplace.”
About 250 people — represent
ing cotton, cattle, peanuts, wheat,
sugar beets and other top Texas
commodities — attended the spe
cial field hearing of the U.S.
House Agriculture Committee.
Testimony centered on a
complex mesh of subsidies, dis
aster insurance and conserva
tion rules. Speakers acknowl
edged the pressure on Congress
to cut farm payments this year.
But committee chairman Pat
Roberts, R-Kansas, said bil
lions already have been elimi
nated from farm spending over
the last decade.
“I think it’s a paradox of
enormous irony that, in fact,
some say that agriculture has
dodged the deficit draft when,
in fact, we ought to get a Pur
ple Heart,” Roberts said.
The daylong hearing in Lub
bock unfolded as President
Clinton, speaking in Iowa, was
vowing to protect small farms
from massive cuts.
Committee members heard
farm experts from Texas praise
the Conservation Reserve Pro
gram, which pays landowners
to idle their erodible acres.
Speakers also requested more
flexible provisions on what and
when they plant.
“If producers are to receive
more of their income from mar
kets, they must then be allowed
to plant for the market,” said
Hart farmer Ray Joe Riley,
chairman of the state’s
Consolidated Farm Services
Agency committee.
The most repeated complaint,
though, was lodged against
environmental regulations.
“The attack on private prop
erty rights, the overwhelming
regulatory burden — not just in
costs, but in time, paperwork
and the uncertainty of making
marketing decisions for the fu
ture — are the single largest
burden that the federal govern
ment has on agriculture,”
Perry said.
Perry offered nine recom
mendations as Congress pre
pares to write the bill that sets
farm policy for the next
five years.
Those recommendations —
compiled by a task force of 13
Texans — coyer trade, re
search, rural development and
credit availability.
Congress should reduce the
capital gains taxes and inheri
tance taxes to make
it easier for young
farmers to get start
ed, Perry said. He
urged a structured
transition during the
reduction of subsi
dies.
America must pro
mote its crops overseas and en
force its trade treaties, he said.
“I fear that most American
and Texas farmers are still not
recognizing the opportunities
available in exports,” Perry
said. “While other countries’
farmers are aggressively cap
turing markets, we are still fo
cusing on a domestic market
that may have reached its limit
for growth.”
"Clearly, change is needed."
— Rick Perry,
Texas Agriculture Commissioner
Unabomber strikes Sacramento lobbyist
Q Federal officials have been
searching for the anonymous
attacker for 1 7 years. His
latest victim was the presi
dent of the California
Forestry Association.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The cool and
meticulous Unabomber, who has attacked
without warning during 17 years of terror,
wrote letters this time around that indicate
he’s unraveling, federal sources said Tuesday.
“We anticipated something before the sum
mer,” said one source, who spoke on condition
of anonymity. “This guy has flipped out.”
The latest victim: A lobbyist for the timber
industry in California. Gilbert B. Murray, 47,
was killed Monday when a mailed package
bomb went off in his Sacramento office.
Murray, president of the California
Forestry Association, was the third person
killed in 16 attacks attributed to the Un
abomber since 1978. Twenty-three people
have been injured.
Only once before has the bomber written
a letter — in June 1993 to The New York
Times in which he claimed to be part of a
group and espoused an anarchistic philoso
phy. Agents said, however, that they doubt
he belongs to a group and called the Times
letter a “trial balloon.”
Now, in light of the recent letters in Mur
ray’s case, investigators believe the bomber
has broken his long silence, said the law
enforcement source.
A San Francisco-based task force of FBI,
Postal Service and Treasury Department in
vestigators was expecting the latest bombing,
the source said.
"This is a very brave, brazen
person in the sense that he's not
really hiding the fact that the
bomb is his."
— Lt. Joe EnLoe,
Sacramento homicide detective
“There have been some letters delivered,”
said the source, who refused to elaborate.
A second federal source confirmed letters
from the Unabomber were received. He sug
gested some may have been timed to arrive
the day of the bombing. He also refused to dis
cuss the contents or addresses of the letters.
Sacramento homicide Lt. Joe Enloe said
bomb fragments contained the “signature” of
the Unabomber.
“This is a very brave, brazen person in the
sense that he’s not really hiding the fact that
the bomb is his,” Enloe said. The force of the
shoebox-sized bomb sent fragments 140 feet
into the building’s reception area, he said.
The package was addressed to Murray’s
predecessor, William Dennison, who left the
job a year ago. The Postal Inspection Service
is tracking where and when the bomb was
mailed, said spokesman Dan DeMiglio.
“It was an extremely cleanly wrapped
package, almost flawlessly wrapped. It ap
peared to have no seams. It was clearly ad
dressed,” DeMiglio said.
The Unabomber, who got the name be
cause he initially targeted university and air
line officials, is known for careful craftsman
ship and meticulous wrapping. The Murray
bomb was his 16th.
A composite drawing of the bomber was
distributed after he was spotted dropping
off a package in Salt Lake City in 1987. He
was quiet for six years, but resumed his
work with two bombings two days apart in
June 1993. His latest, before Monday’s at
tack, was in December, when a bomb killed
advertising executive Thomas Mosser in
his New Jersey home.
Monday’s bombing about four months after
the Mosser attack fits a pattern similar to
bombings since 1982. In each case except one,
a first bombing was followed by a second in a
week to a few months.'
Wednesday • April
Movie, dance legei
Rogers dead at 83|
□ The Oscar-winning
actress will be missed
by her friends.
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did it
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gin
ger Rogers, whose glittering
string of Depression-era musi
cals with Fred Astaire helped
Americans forget the emptiness
of their wallets and the grum
bling in their stomachs, died
Tuesday. She was 83.
Miss Rogers, who won an
Oscar for the 1940 drama
‘‘Kitty Foyle,” died at her
home in Rancho Mirage near
Palm Springs.
From vaudeville to
television, Miss
Rogers’ career
spanned 65 years.
“She was a gen
uine, 14-karat gold
legend,” said actress
and dancer Ann
Miller, who at age 14
starred with Miss
Rogers in the 1937
classic “Stage Door.”
“She was the one
who stuck up for me,” Miller
said from her home in Se-
dona, Ariz. “She got me a
speaking part. She’s a very
special lady and she was a
very dear friend. I’m heart
broken.”
Former President Reagan
and his wife, Nancy, were her
friends for nearly five decades.
“We are deeply saddened
by the death of Ginger Rogers
today,” the couple said in a
written statement. “She was
a dear friend for almost 50
years who delighted millions
with her incredible ability to
dance and perform.”
“She was one of the truly
great ladies of the silver
screen, she had few equals,”
Bob Hope said.
Miss Rogers became one of
Hollywood’s highest-paid fe
male stars in the 1940s, ap
pearing in hits such as “The
Major and the Minor,” “Lady
in the Dark” and “Weekend at
the Waldorf.”
But it was her celluloid
partnership with Astaire that
made her a legend.
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was in “Top Hat,” a 19
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thing Fred Astaire didj
did it with high heels (
did it backwards,” Reaii
commented in 1986.
Astaire died in 1987. ;
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where in heaven Fred fej
inger Rogers did even
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backwards."
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their first dance.
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screen incarnation, neve:
eluded real-life romance,
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ferent interests. We®
couple only on film.”
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vogue had run its ctS
Their careers separated.
CounseLine
Jealousy causes problems in relationships, counselors sal/
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By Dr. Andy Smith
Student Counseling Service
Jealousy occurs when we feel
uncertain about ourselves or
when we’re not experiencing ad
equate satisfaction in our lives.
I’d like to contrast two feel
ings that are closely related:
envy and jealousy.
Envy is a feeling we all expe
rience. We may be envious of
peoples’ success, appearance or
the way they get along with oth
ers. This is a feeling of, “I’d like
to be more like that.”
When we feel envious, we are
admiring something others have
that we would like. We might
try dressing more like them or
changing our behavior to be
more like them.
Jealousy involves believing
that anyone or anything that
comes between us and the per
son we’re in a relationship with
is a rival.
For instance, if I am a jeal
ous person and I’m in a rela
tionship with you, your friends,
job, outside activities, even pets
can stir jealous feelings. It’s
the feeling that the rival is
cheating me in some way.
Jealous people believe their
worth depends on maintaining
the complete attention and affec
tion of their partners. Anything
interfering with this exclusive
attention is a threat.
It’s as if you’re saying, “I’m an
OK person as long as I have your
complete attention.”
What can we do with our
jealous feelings?
If you feel jealous, most of the
cure lies within you, the jealous
person, not with your partner.
Conquering jealousy requires
learning to care about yourself.
Often, jealous people feel as if
something is missing from their
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lives. They need more love
and recognition.
Jealous people react to these
feelings by pulling more tightly
on their partners, wanting more
of the partners’ time and becom
ing more possessive.
A jealous person is usually
saying, “I want my partner to
fulfill me, to make me feel more
adequate, because I feel empty
and alone by myself.”
For instance, if your partner
has other friends and you are
jealous of this, you may react by
being angry or irritated.
Instead of accepting and ap
preciating your partner’s
friends, you may feel as if these
friends are potential rivals for
your partner’s affection. You
might react competitively with
your partner’s friends or punish
your partner by withdrawing.
Jealous people need to attend
to their own needs and provide
for themselves, rather than ex
pecting their partners to do it for
them. If people recognize their
own jealousy, they can rid them
selves of it by building self-confi
dence and independence.
Learning to cope, meeting
new challenges, developing out
side interests and friends and
acquiring new skills are all con
fidence-builders.
When partners realize they
cannot meet all of each other’s
needs, they both develop the
freedom to have outside friends,
interests and fulfilling activities.
They are also more satisfied
when they are together.
Building self-confidence is
sometimes difficult to do by
yourself and often requires help
from a professional psychologist
or counselor. Building self-confi
dence won’t necessarily keep
partners from leaving, but it’s
more likely to benefit the rela-
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tionship than reacting in a cling
ing or possessive manner.
What about reversing the
question and asking, “What can
I do if someone else is jealous of
me in a relationship?”
You can try to understand
what the other person is feeling.
Ftealize they may be feeling un
sure or as though there is some
thing missing in them. Let them
know what their jealousy is doing
to you. Tell them that, instead of
drawing you closer and making
you more attentive, it actually
drives you further away.
It is sometimes necessary to
tell them you feel restricted
and can’t freely give what you
want to give.
Are there some things you
might do to create or accentuate
another person’s jealousy?
Might you be doing something to
make them jealous?
jealous feelings can contra
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