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Lurching back and forth between optimism and pessimism about whether the federal aid to rural counties will continue, Oregonians have been told that a Senate deal has been reached that will extend the aid for now. Trouble is, the extension has been attached as an amendment to the emergency supplemental appropriations bill, which, if House Democrats get their Iraq timetable language in there, faces a probable veto by president Bush. And so it goes...