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...Nutrition Committee committed themselves to folding the Select Committee into the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. It is surprising, then, that any serious effort is being made now to revive the Nutrition Committee. Yet it is not at all surprising when one realizes that the February decision to abolish the Select Committee was a case of the Senate cutting off its nose to spite its face, one of the biggest mistakes it made this year, and most critically, a gross injustice to the poor people of this country made in the interests of "organizational efficiency...
Given these developments, it is not surprising to note that we are on the threshold of a new mass movement seeking to abolish nuclear weapons, ban nuclear power, stop the arms race, and use the money saved to address human needs. These are the challenges which speak directly to the issues of human survival in our time...
...proposal to 1) retain federal price controls on natural gas sold across interstate lines but 2) raise the ceiling from $1.47 to $1.75 per thousand cubic feet (m.c.f). That scheme made it through the House, but the gas industry's friends in the Senate wanted to abolish controls altogether, which would leave the price to be set by free-market forces. Byrd plumped for Carter's bill. He sensed, however, that he would lose in the Senate, which would vote to lift price ceilings. Nonetheless, he figured that any decontrol measure would later be undone by the House...
...cozy arrangement under which the expenses of the 202-man Israeli arms-purchasing mission in New York was picked up by the U.S. Washington could drag its feet in helping develop Israel's own armaments industry, and refuse to deliver a promised nuclear power plant. The Administration could abolish the tax deduction that encourages Americans to send tens of millions of dollars to Israel via the United Jewish Appeal and other channels. The U.S. could end a policy of joint ventures between the two countries, like an expensive desalinization plant recently completed in Tel Aviv...
...imbroglios, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in a separate but similar case, has pushed the legislature to act on the question of sovereign immunity by the end of 1978. If the legislators do not allow citizens to make "reasonable" claims against the government by then, the court threatened to abolish the doctrine on its own-and without an limit to government liability...