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Faced with an OPEC oil embargo in 1973, the country found enough willing sellers who were not members of the cartel to keep going nicely, while developing its coal and nuclear power. Within two years, thanks to conservation measures and its growing program to convert coal to oil, South Africa will meet 60% of its needs for oil and gasoline. Nor are international economic sanctions likely to give pause to the rulers in Pretoria. One ironic reason: although neighboring black nations would want to go along with a boycott, they could not for long because they depend so heavily...
...rules calling for custom-tailored educational programs for handicapped students are being reviewed. The Department of Health and Human Services regulations that impede the speedy testing of new consumer drugs are also under study. At the Interior Department, rules that drive up the cost of strip-mining coal are being rethought. The Administration is also looking into possible changes in the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, which increases the cost of Government construction projects by forcing businesses to pay the prevailing union wage even when less costly workers are available...
...pollutants that has been killing fish in many wilderness areas, will be another of the major battlegrounds. The causes of this problem are not yet well understood, and there is some suspicion that the Clean Air Act itself may have contributed to it. Reason: the law has led coal-burning plants to install taller smokestacks that carry particles high into the atmosphere, where they help to form the acid rain...
Last week the prospects for an end to the 64-day strike suddenly brightened. Exhausted from ten hours of bargaining, Church emerged from a suite in Washington's Capital Hilton Hotel and announced that a new deal had been reached with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, which represents 130 leading soft-coal mineowners. Said Church: "I finally made it; we have a contract." Asked if the U.M.W.'s membership would ratify the proposed pact, the union boss gamely ventured, "I think...
...initial walkout in March, although the new contract sweetens the deal to 38% over three years and four months, as compared with 36% for a flat three years in the first contract. The most important question was a proposed change in the longstanding policy that required the coal companies to make royalty payments into union health and retirement funds when they bought nonunion coal. The union leadership's decision to drop that provision in the first contract had been the basis for the rank and file's rejection of the deal. The B.C.O.A. has now agreed to resume...