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Show Vote 'unfair' The vote in the U.S. Senate and House of the recent signing to suspend the April 1 dairy price support increase by President Ronald Reagan is a severe blow to an important segment of the agriculture industry, Roy L. Holman, president of the Utah-Idaho Farmers Union said last week. Holman noted that David Stockman, Reagan's budget director, has called the dairy price support program "scandalous" and has indicated that the administration may propose further reductions reduc-tions in the price support level when the current law expires on Oct. 1. "In view of the fact that various foreign trade agreements have increased in-creased cheese and other dairy imports forcing additional domestic dairy purchase by the Commodity Com-modity Credit Corporation, Cor-poration, it is unfair for this administration to assert that U. S. dairy producers are costing the taxpayer millions of dollars. Part of the overproduction is due to foreign policy decisions, |