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...House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment: "If Reagan keeps to his rhetoric, he will declare war on the act. The potential is there for a tremendous battle." Some of the President's supporters are likely to be split on the issue. While businesses want fewer restraints on coal burning, farmers and fishermen are alarmed by the acid rain emanating from polluting stacks. Says Charles Lee, Florida spokesman for the Audubon Society: "The real tests for the first time in decades will not be between liberals and conservatives, but among conservatives themselves...
...said he had no reservations about enforcing them. In fact, he said, he is more concerned that the purpose of the laws, and the West's ecology, might be damaged should an energy emergency in the future spawn "crisis-oriented, unreasonable" programs to develop the region's coal, gas and oil resources. Said Watt: "All too often, the Federal Government moves in a crisis, not with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel but with the force of a meat ax. We want the right kind of development to come over time, not the wrong kind...
...dispute, Solidarity's national commission passed a defiant resolution calling for a five-day week by declaring Saturday a nonworking day. Since most Poles are usually required to work a six-day week, this was a provocative departure. Several union locals, representing shipyard workers in Gdansk and Gdynia, coal miners in Silesia, and most of the 16,000 workers at the giant Ursus tractor factory outside Warsaw, threatened to force the demand by not showing up for work on Saturday. The Ministry of Labor, Wages and Social Affairs responded by instructing factory managers to dock the pay of workers...
...final presentation of evidence, the prosecutors flashed grisly pictures of the bruised corpse of former Coal Mining Minister Zhang Linzhi on a large screen in the courtroom and called two witnesses to testify that Jiang Qing had ordered Red Guards to deal with him as a counterrevolutionary. Then, in the "debate" portion of the trial, which allows a modicum of defense, Prosecutor Jiang Wen demanded that Mme. Mao be punished in accordance with Article 103 of China's criminal code. It allows the death penalty in cases where "serious harm" has been done to the state...
...stormy session last week Jiang was charged with inciting her followers to persecute several well-known writers and a government official, Coal Mining Minister Zhang Linzhi, who died in early 1967 after being beaten by Red Guards. Jiang not only denied the acts but, at one point, angrily accused the judges of being "fascists and Kuomintang [Nationalist Party] agents...