1.   Concerning agrarian reform, Gorbachev took issue with the position espoused by party agriculture secretary and leading conservative Yegor Ligachev.

2.   Among the contenders to succeed Espy are Ruth Harkin, head of the Overseas Private Investment Corp., and Deputy Agriculture Secretary Richard Rominger, former California agriculture secretary.

3.   An introductory lunch was arranged with Tyson before Espy was named agriculture secretary, with responsibility for overseeing a reform of the poultry-inspection regime.

4.   And even after Panetta came to the White House in July, the administration was embarrassed several times by fresh accusations of misbehavior by its agriculture secretary.

5.   At that time, he became acquainted with Ezra Taft Benson, the Eisenhower choice for agriculture secretary, who picked Morse as his under-secretary.

6.   A former agriculture secretary, he was masterly in the legal manipulation of federal subsidies.

7.   A Senate panel ignored appeals of the U.S. agriculture secretary and approved less than a third of the money requested by President Bill Clinton for grain export subsidies.

8.   Agriculture secretary, perhaps?

9.   But the new law gives the agriculture secretary, Ann M. Veneman, the power to adjust the subsidies to bring them in line with international agreements.

10.   By that time, of course, there may be a new president and a new agriculture secretary who might let the industry off the hook.