The LA Times.

The former New York mayor, campaigning for president in California farm country, focuses on terrorism.

TULARE, CALIF. - Farmers from around the nation gathered on acres of dusty flats in this Central Valley town on Tuesday to ponder displays of shiny new tractors, plows and dairy machines.

For a trade-show crowd accustomed to swapping ideas on crops and livestock, the topic of Rudolph W. Giuliani's breakfast speech was a sober diversion: terrorism.