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Show " 1 . M .AHEAD I4- .fcAaOBCEiBL-NSON fJ Ifb rU.:t- IUrJ. tH.; ttisKOVK n;o.n:cn "ton -- lf vou vvimt to S W3t"!-id.nv of the person in A merlon moat, effect ively blocking "7'IWoncH tou lmlanee.1 fec e d TT ,'V tlU ,u',u' '"lure vm should take your pen and , un -Uoteh a man's UMd wiUl ( noes, one lace looking oast and ,h '"" 'aoe looking west ot o m" ";"' . .vour sket,h shouM ;;r ,u; ,n,,u -sve Out ,t the other mouth, he would "Spend r K W,,h qiml v,Br- 1 Hiring the last, three months I hi ve spout considerable time in Washington interviewing cabinet members and key people in Con-gross. Con-gross. It is my conviction that there is a strong determination among the present leadership of our nut tonal government, in both the executive and legislative departments, de-partments, to drastically cut down on its size, its power, and its cost in tax dollars. But there is no certainty cer-tainty nt all that it will be done. "No Cut !" Groups of people who constitute only a small oprtion of our citizenry citizen-ry but who are politically vocal and active are sending delegations to the White House and to the Senate and House office buildings insistently urging that there be no "cut" In the appropriations for I their pet project. Iinvariably these persons, like the man speaking out of two mouths, are vocal for reduction of federal spending and taxes so long as the reduction is made in somebody else's project. The representatives and senators in the capital shook their heads when I inquired about their genuine genu-ine feeling regarding a balanced budget and tax cuts. They showed me piles of letters from the "folks" back home gently or firmly pressuring pres-suring for such things as restoration restora-tion of the cut in Agriculture Dei-partment Dei-partment funds for soil conservation conserva-tion payments; restoration of the |