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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once seemed a temporary California phenomenon, were snaking through the suburbs of Washington and streets of Manhattan, and by last week had spread all up and down the Eastern seaboard. Seven states?Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia?and the District of Columbia had to begin odd-even allocation. Independent truckers, who charge that rising fuel prices are depriving them of a livelihood, started a strike that soon led to food shortages, scattered violence and threats of worse to come. Although the Department of Energy had contributed to the gas shortage by urging oil companies...
...around Capitol Hill last week as Jimmy Carter wound up his summit in Vienna with Leonid Brezhnev and brought home the Soviet President's signature on a treaty to restrict both nations' long-range nuclear weapons. It was the signal for the great SALT II debate to begin in earnest. At stake is not just a treaty, but ten years of nuclear arms negotiations and the very nature of the relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Friend and foe of the treaty in the Senate feel they have embarked, in the words of Republican Treaty Opponent...
Thus, said a senior White House official, the most that the Administration expects from the chiefs is that they will give "judicious and careful testimony" when hearings on the treaty begin July 9 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...trial of the Angels is set to begin in mid-August. Each defendant could draw up to 20 years. But even with convictions, says one federal official, "there will be more of them out of prison than in, and you can't change years of a pattern overnight...
Like college students with term papers due, U.S. Supreme Court Justices begin to churn out opinions at a fast clip as the court's October-to-June term draws to an end. Their most notable decisions last week...