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Show mmw Thursday, November Bush signs farm bill - WASHINGTON (AP) dent Bush on Wednesday House veterans - WASHINGTON Take (AP) good notes, dont stretch the law, Presi- keep your spouse happy and remember the whole world is watching, House veterans advised incoming freshmen Wednesday at a pep talk with sobering mo. ments. "I'm sure that everybody here was told at some point... that you were out of your mind, that you signed into law a five-yea-r, $170 billion farm bill that curbs federal subsidies and champions environmental protection. "This is the most environmentally progressive farm bill ever signed," Bush said at a White House signing ceremony as Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter and key farm-stat- e lawmakers looked on. The measure, approved by Congress in October, also renews for five years the food stamp program that helps feeds the nation's poor. could never win, that you shouldn't start on this venture because it was fruitless, that it was going to wreck your private life and wreck your family," House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt told his new colleagues. Then he praised them for ignoring that advice and offered some It freezes minimum commodity target prices at 1990 levels and cuts subsidized acreage 15 plrcent, a provision some senators opposed. The federal deficit-reductiplan approved last month requires a $13 billion cut in spending on farm programs through fiscal 1995. Bush said the new law builds on the success of the 1985 farm bill, which has led to record farm income in recent years. bill that "It's a market-oriente- d lets farmers make more of their own production decisions based on the market, rather than on government support prices," he said at the signing ceremony, driven indoors from the Rose Garden by a drizzle. "It also encourages the research that is so crucial to helping our farmers maintain their global lead in agriculture," he said. The bill pegs the basic loan rates for wheat and feed grain to 85 percent of the five-yemoving average of market prices, excluding the high and low years. ar of his own, borrowed from Sam Houston: "Do right and risk consequences." The freshmen 25 Democrats, 18 Republicans and an independent were in town for two days of seminars on office allowances and mailing privileges, congressional ethics and spousal perspectives, and the "customs, decorum and unwritten rules" of their new lives. "I feel as. if I'm starting over again," said Democrat Maxine Waters of California, an experienced state legislator. "I found one of the men's rooms and that's a plus," said Republican Gary Franks of Connecticut. "Hopefully I'll find a place where I can get a good cup - The adininistration has briefed some members of the U.N. Security Council about its contentions that Iraq has secret nuclear plans, said one official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The decision to share the information was apparently part of an intense administration effort to win as many votes as possible for a resolution allowing military force to dislodge Iraq from Kuwait. Two inspectors of the Vienna-base- d IAEA, which monitors compliance with the Nuclear Treaty, visited nuclear sites in Iraq last week and announced they had not found any evidence of atomic weapons development. top-secr- et of coffee Democrat Collin Peterson of Minnesota, who won his seat on the fifth try, plans to keep a safe distance from the institution he fought so hard to join. "I'm not taking any trips. I'm going back to my district every weekend. I'm not going to be part of the Washington scene, I'll tell you that," he said. "I don't really like it here all that much." Peterson came so close to beating seven-terRep. Arlan Stangeland in 1986 that he showed up for orientation during a recount. This year, with Stangeland plagued by ethics problems, Peterson won by 8 points. But he's still insecure. "I'm not going to really believe this until I'm sworn in." he said. here in the halls of Congress as well." Many of. the new members won their jobs by bashing Congress and some vowed, even as they were being steeped in House lore, to remain outsiders. Bernie Sanders, the socialist elected as an independent from Vermont, said voters gave him a mandate to "come down here and give them hell." He started WASHINGTON (AP) dent Bush on Wednesday Presi- signed into law a housing bill that he hailed as a vehicle to make public bousing for the poor "a springboard for independence, not a bottomless pit for dependence." The National Affordable Housing Act, with a total pricetag of $25 billion for this fiscal year and $27 billion in fiscal 1992, provides families to grants for buy their public housing units or homes that are vacant or have been foreclosed. The measure provides $155 million for this fiscal year and $885 million for 1992 to help people buy their homes. Among other provisions, it aulow-inco- low-inco- thorizes $123 million this fiscal year and $258 million for 1992 to provide housing and services for the homeless. It also contains a new block 1 grant program, authorizing $1 billion for this year and $2.1 billion for 1992 "to promote partnerships" by federal, state and local governments with private groups and industry "to utilize a wide variety of approaches to meet housing needs," the White House said. Other provisions include: Increasing public housing grants to $160 million for drug elimination efforts and youth sports programs. Reauthorizing the McKinney Act programs for the homeless. Emphasizing government assistance for rehabilitation over new construction, and requiring higher state and local contributions where new construction of public housing is deemed necessary. Federal Housing Administration assessment of new annual d premium on borrowers of loans that increases mini- FHA-backe- IBB mum upfront closing costs. Combining housing assistance with support services for the elderly. "The National Affordable Housing Act gives people the best kind of government assistance it provides opportunity and it encourages responsibility without the shackles of dependency," Bush said Wednes-day."W- e want public housing to become a springboard for independence, not a bottomless pit for dependency." The White House and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp have touted their new housing program as an example of how to "empower" the poor to help themselves. "A cornerstone of our effort to reduce the heavy hand of government is this idea of empowering people, not bureaucracies," Bush said in a signing ceremony in the r"': 'J 58 Poinsettia Land Thousands of Poinsettias In Large Selection Available From Small Poinsettias to Tree Poinsettias within 19-2- Poinsettia cflOff (with L East Room. "Empowerment" is a theme that Coupon Expires Dec. 15, 1990 But Bush has set up within his Domestic Policy Council a task force on empowerment, chaired by Kemp. The general philosophy, say those involved, is to give people tools to help themselves, rather than having government social programs do it for them. atriZi - BERT-MUROOOfrMUSI- a. urem 00 00. ucneva ii it LimH 1 i GARDENfCENTER "Home of Grant's Plants" to r tr" or Aza,ea coupon Coupon good with purchase of one poinsettia or azalea has generated controversy within the administration, with Richard Darman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, recently dismissing it in a speech as a meaningless catch phrase. li Full Color! RED PINK WHITE AND BICOLORS th ii "J Richard Gephardt months." The inspectors, who conduct checks in Iraq, toured a storage plant and a plant Nov. 2 at Baghdad's invitation. wm tans ' "We think the International Atomic Energy Agency is wrong," said White House spokesman Mar-li- n Fitzwater. "They see only what Iraq wants them to see." Fitzwater said President Bush had received briefings from intelligence officials that led him to reveal several days ago that Iraq had a nuclear capability "that could come to fruition J' . . m "Congress is dominated by big money and we need a political revolution in this country to change our priorities," he said amid the gold leaf, fluted columns, crystal chandeliers and potted palms of the Cannon Caucus Room. Bush signs housing bill designed to aid poor : Page A7, pdlnto'to frehmen White House says agency mislead on Iraq's plans for nuke weapons WASHINGTON (AP) The administration on Wednesday took on the International Atomic Energy Agency, saying its inspectors had been misled into concluding Iraq wasn't developing nuclear weapons. The comments are the latest in a concerted campaign by President Bush and his top aides to warn that Iraq could have a nuclear weapon within months. THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 29, 1990 oa Hour.: 10 to 5 . 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