71.   Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas, who is to be the new majority leader in the House, wants to plow into federal farm subsidies.

72.   Republicans promised drastic cuts in farm subsidies under the complex programs dating to the Depression.

73.   Sen. Richard Lugar, from the farm state of Indiana, has courageously called for reducing farm subsidies.

74.   Roth noted the EU outspends the U.S. six to one on farm export subsidies.

75.   Some of those savings, like those in farm subsidies, have already been identified.

76.   Some programs, like wasteful farm subsidies, deserve to be eliminated.

77.   Suddenly, fruit, vegetable and specialty crop farmers are fighting cotton and rice farmers for the limited amount of federal farm subsidies that are available.

78.   Supporters of farm subsidies, which were enacted in the Depression, argue that they are needed to save the family farm.

79.   That coalition could collapse as Republicans turn social programs over to the states and farm subsidies are attacked from the political right and left.