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...closing flurry of lobbying for gas deregulation last week, the opposing sides could agree on one thing: they had never seen anything like it. Said the American Gas Association's vice president for Government relations, Nick L. Laird: "It is one of the most intensive, all-out efforts I've ever witnessed." Added James Plug, director of Energy Action Committee, a consumers' lobbying group: "From my experience on the Hill, I don't remember anything like it. Maybe the exception is the antiwar movement...
...Leader Robert Byrd and Minority Leader Howard Baker. Despite calls from President Carter, both remain uncommitted. Baker told the President: "I have decided not to decide for the moment." Byrd has indicated only that if he makes up his mind to push the treaties, he will do so in an all-out way, directing Senate strategy. If he decides to oppose them, he will cast his negative vote but not lead the opposition. Although their indecision may look like abdication of their roles, the stance of both men may be tactically smart. But before the emotional Panama Canal issue...
...energy program, which had sailed through the House almost intact. The Senate Finance Committee dumped Carter's proposed penalty taxes on gas-guzzling cars in favor of its own bill to ban them outright, starting in 1980 with those getting less than 16 m.p.g. Next, despite an all-out Administration effort, the Senate voted 52 to 46 against killing legislation that would end federal price controls on new natural gas-supplies. These battles, however, are far from finished, and still could be won by Carter when House and Senate conferees meet to agree on a final form...
...their familiarity. In philosophy, they represent a return to the broad-brush, stockpiling farm-management policies introduced more than four decades ago. These policies were abandoned by Richard Nixon's aggressive, foot-in-mouth Agriculture Secretary, Earl Butz, a dedicated free marketeer. Butz's emphasis on an all-out export drive for farm products yielded spectacular results, including a threefold increase in the domestic price of wheat-but that was largely the result of bad harvests in China and the Soviet Union. One form of Government intervention that even Butz favored was the "set-aside." It was used...
...July 5 under a special contract extension, seemed near a successful conclusion early this summer, but a dispute over the scope of union bargaining authority derailed the talks. Letteri said Harvard's failure to guarantee job security to officers who fail their mandatory physical examinations was part of "a big all-out effort to break up the union" by using the physicals as an excuse to weed out uncooperative union members...