Beefing Up the Market

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A day after making a token intervention to halt rapidly expanding gas prices by selling 12 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, President Clinton is again on the campaign offensive, this time in the cattle market. In ordering the federal government to speed up beef purchases and open up federal lands for grazing in an attempt to nudge cattle prices from their worst slump in 10 years, Clinton won praise from lawmakers and cattle ranchers -->