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...when, as participants in informal sessions aimed at delaying the bill have reported, the Cambridge emissaries to the Hill "took the lead among the country's schools" in fighting to kill the bill, Buckley's staff refused to budge--as some had expected. Buckley did agree to try to "amend his amendment" to exempt past recommendation letters from inspection and enable students to waive their rights to see their files. But the bill will go into law without delay, Kwapisz says...
...appalled. Indeed, the Sierra Club, knowing that a Class II designation implies "significant deterioration" of clean air, threatens to go to court to overturn the EPA'S plan. Eventually, the increasingly complex issue may be tossed back into the lap of the Congress, where lawmakers may well amend the Clean Air Act to take into account an important factor ignored in the original legislation: economic needs. That kind of uniform federal regulation-coupled with continuing safeguards against overall deterioration of the air quality in the U.S.-would clearly be preferable to the legal confusion invited...
Among the conversations I listened to at that time were two of those of June 23. Although I recognized that these presented potential problems. I did not inform my staff or my counsel of it, or those arguing my case, nor did I amend my submission to the Judiciary Committee in order to include and reflect...
...practiced by President Park Chung Hee, "modern democracy" has become an Orwellian synonym for despotic one-man rule. Since January alone, Park has proclaimed four restrictive "emergency decrees," one of which bans any attempt to amend or criticize his custom-tailored constitution, which gives him virtually unlimited powers...
...Project on Corporate Responsibility has called on five corporations--Union Oil, Gulf, Warner-Lambert, Eastman Kodak and International Telephone and Telegraph--to amend their bylaws to prohibit contributions to political campaigns...