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...slowdown was started by Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, who wrote a letter to Budget Committee Chairman Edmund Muskie urging him to set up a task force to study both the economic and environmental impact of Carter's $141 billion energy program. It was too vast and too complicated, Hart argued, to be approved without extensive research. "We ought to understand what all this means," he said. Muskie agreed and took the argument to Senator Henry Jackson, who wanted an omnibus energy bill as soon as possible. Despite Jackson, the Hart-Muskie view prevailed, and Jackson...
...Thomas McGee, speaker of the Massachusetts house, has quietly supported a Carter move to get the state legislature to postpone the primary day, and 2) John White, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has warned the state's Democrats that the March 4 date violates a D.N.C. rule requiring all state Democratic organizations to take "positive steps" to set their primary elections between March 11 and June 11. If they do not do so, contends White, the delegates chosen by any earlier election could possibly be denied seats at the Democratic National Convention next summer in New York City...
...state Democratic chairman, Chester Atkins, also refused to back the bill. At the same time, Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas said he may run in the primary as part of a "hold-the-delegates-for-Kennedy operation...
Congressional sources say that Chrysler Corp. representatives have warned them that unless financial aid comes forth by the end of the year, the stricken automaker may have to close its doors. Two months ago, Chairman John Riccardo was telling legislators that the company would need some federal assistance by early next year, but last week's long awaited announcement of the company's $207 million second-quarter loss has compressed that timetable. A shutdown of the nation's tenth largest manufacturer (1978 sales: $13.6 billion) and sizable defense contractor ($625 million in 1978) would have far-reaching...
Cannily laying the blame for Chrysler's bloodletting on federal safety, mileage and emission regulations, Chairman Riccardo is asking Congress for $1 billion in tax refunds, exactly the amount that meeting Government standards will cost the company between now and the fall of 1980. By then lacocca will produce those front-wheel drive Mustangs-in-Chrysler-clothing that are supposed to restore the company's competitive edge...