Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even many Administration insiders recognize that their anti-inflation policy is not working. Admitted a top policymaker: "We cannot go on expecting the wage and price guidelines to hold." Since President Carter has ruled out mandatory controls, the only other policy choice, in the view of White House advisers, is to raise interest rates. Leaks to the press and other pressures on Miller to tighten money became so obvious before the Open Market Committee meeting that Carter sent notes to Blumenthal and Schultze telling them to stop it. The President did not necessarily oppose the Fed's raising interest rates...
...Douglas Fraser, the U.A.W.'s blunt president, vowed to ignore the guides when negotiations begin on the new contract (the current one expires Sept. 14). Thundered Fraser: "The Teamsters bent the hell out of the guidelines. I don't believe the 7% is a reality any more." The whole anti-inflation program, he added, is "for all intents and purposes dead...
Until the mid-1970s. Congress exercised oversight through powerful committee chairmen who did not examine covert actions closely, if at all. Now any plans for similar operations must be submitted to eight different congressional committees, far too many to keep anything secret. When the CIA proposed aiding anti-Communist forces in Angola in 1975, the plan was quickly leaked to the press by a hostile Senator and thus killed by exposure. The oversight committees should be reduced to the two current Select Committees on Intelligence, which, as a matter of fact, have taken their job fairly seriously and have avoided...
COLORADO--Federal marshals arrested at least 150 anti-nuclear activists trained in civil disobedience Sunday when the protesters marched in front of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant about 16 miles northwest of Denver. Rocky Flats is the nation's only producer of plutonium "triggers" for nuclear weapons...
...Other anti-nuclear demonstrations were staged over the weekend at a ski slope in Vermont, on a farm in Arkansas, on the banks of the Hudson River in New York, and on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico...