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Clearly, the regulations did not "thoroughly frustrate" energy development but merely assured that such development proceeded in accord with the need for protecting lands from the ravages of surface mining. What's more, Mobil's claim to environmental altruism is dubious. The regulations is question were established in the first place only because companies like Mobil had ignored environmental concerns and left strip-mined areas looking like lunar wastelands. In any case, the position itself was clear: "At a time when the public is being asked to make sacrifices to help allay America's energy crisis, shouldn't the government...
Neither side in the abortion debate can claim to have positive knowledge of whether or not abortion constitutes the taking of a life. Yet a real biological possibility exists that this is the case. Given this possibility, the government must accord the fetus the same rights it grants the average criminal suspect: the assumption that it is innocent, until proven guilty, of being an "expendable" member of society. Until proof exists to the contrary, any "moral justification" for abortion simply does not exist...
...longer be bound by the ceilings on offensive, strategic weapons to which they agreed five years ago. Despite Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's meetings in Washington last week with President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, there is virtually no chance that a new arms accord can be reached before the deadline...
...mental institution in 1973, was scheduled to speak on "Psychiatry as a Tool of Soviet Political Oppression." He confined most of his remarks, however, to a discussion of the efforts of Soviet dissident groups to pressure their government to adhere to the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Accord...
...Carter proposal, which the Soviets have already rejected, make up about the only arguments that both hawks and doves in the U.S. can agree upon. Or so says Earl C. Ravenal, a former Defense Department policy-maker, in the September issue of The Atlantic Montly. The 1974 Vladivostock accord, he argues, pleased no one in this country: hawks were convinced the negotiated arms ceilings froze Soviet superiority in place, while doves saw the numbers game the negotiators played as just another example of "overkill." Either way, someone lost...