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With the economic decisions behind him, Carter was free to focus most of his attention on the fight over energy. To improve the package's chances of passing the House despite the opposition of numerous powerful special interests, Tip O'Neill will assign it to a special committee headed by a friendly Democrat, Thomas Ashley of Ohio. Ashley in turn will farm out parts of it to seven House committees, which will be required to act within 75 or 90 days. In this way, O'Neill hopes to prevent opponents from blocking any elements of the package from reaching...
There is some consolation in the city that it is worse in the suburbs. The suburbs were born with the auto, lived with the auto, and are dying with the auto. One way out for the suburbanites is to form associations that assign turns to the procurement and distribution of food. Pushcarts creak from house to house along the posh suburban roads, and every bad snowstorm is a disaster. It isn't easy to hoard enough food to last till the roads are open. There is not much in the way of refrigeration except for the snowbanks, and then...
...grim prospect of a professional coast-to-coast gang methodically exterminating potential court witnesses and FBI informants has led the bureau to assign agents in 20 field offices to the case. Findings so far have strengthened the FBI'S hit-team suspicions. Two .22 pistols discarded after killings were traced to a Miami sporting-goods store that went out of business a few months ago. FBI lab tests show that the .22-cal slugs that killed Capone and Chin came from the same weapon -which has not been found. But both men were also linked through their mutual connection...
...lottery in early May will assign year-end dorm clean-up jobs to students, replacing the first-come, first-serve method used in previous years, the director of student employment said yesterday...
Freshmen are presumably aware of the alterations and improvements the revised package will bestow upon the Quad. But this year the housing office will have to assign from 40 to 60 more unwilling sophomores to the Quad than last year. The other empty spaces opened up as Quad freshmen move out will be partly filled by transfer students; in fact a plan to house all transfer students at the Quad is now under consideration...