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Topics include tax-exempt small-issue bonds and industrial revenue bonds. Correspondents include Donald T. Regan, Olympia J. Snowe, Berkley Bedell, John Duncan, Wes Watkins, Congressional Rural Caucus, J. Scott Brown, and Congressional Sunbelt Caucus.

Topics include meat grading standards, brucellosis eradication, agricultural trade, Farm Products Buyers Protection Act, clear title legislation, cattle futures, and Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board. Correspondents include Livestock Marketing Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, National Livestock Commission Association, Jack D. Craig, and Ed Jones.

Topics include Legislative Policies (booklet). Correspondents include National Grange.

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.