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Topics include Rural Development Perspectives (booklet), rural development credit programs, farm loan foreclosures, Farmers Home Administration rural housing programs, National Rural Development Strategy (booklet), farm population, and Rural Enterprises Annual Progress Report. Correspondents include USDA Economic Research Service, Wes Watkins, Congressional Rural Caucus, John R. Block, and Rural Enterprises.

Topics include directory of rural electric systems, acid rain, telephone service, rural electric financing, proposed amendments to Rural Electric Act, federal loans, and telephone revolving fund self-sufficiency. Correspondents include Glenn English, National Rural Electric, Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives, Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, Congressional Agricultural Forum, Charles W. Stenholm, and J. Paul McGrath.

Topics include erosion, soil surveys of Garvin and Cleveland counties, North Deer Creek Watershed, Fragile Lands Preservation Act, Soil Conservation Act, and Lugert-Altus Watershed. Correspondents include Soil Conservation Service, Roland R. Willis, Soil Conservation Society of America, Cotton County Conservation District, Stephens County Conservation District, John R. Block, and Hal Daub.

Topics include commodity distribution, emergency food assistance, hunger, thrifty food plan, nutrition programs, national commodity processing systems, school lunch programs, and dairy products. Correspondents include Bill Emerson, Leon E. Panetta, U. S. General Accounting Office, and Richard Lyng.

Topics include bank failures, FDIC assistance programs, Stratford Savings and Loan Association, and Comptroller of Currency. Correspondents include American Exchange Bank, Oklahoma Bankers Association, Norman Bank of Commerce, and Edwin J. Gray.

Topics include Comptroller of Currency, Penn Square Bank liquidation, bank deregulation, new national bank charters, interstate banks, First Continental Bank of Del City insolvency, and Home Savings of America. Correspondents include Norman Bank of Commerce, American Exchange Bank, and C. T. Conover.

Topics include overview of McCurdy banking legislation, bank failures, loan loss reserve accounts, Bank of Newcastle, First City Bank failure, net worth certificate program applications, Government Securities Act, bank regulations, and First National Bank of Terrell. Correspondents include U. S. General Accounting Office, Mickey Edwards, Congressional Research Service, American Bankers Association, and Oklahoma Bankers Association.

Topics include banking and securities regulation, First State Bank of Cache, bank bailouts, agriculture and energy loans, credit card interest rates, First National Bank and Trust Company of Oklahoma City, bank failures, and Norman Bank of Commerce. Correspondents include Congressional Research Service, Mike Synar, and Charles E. Schumer.