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...House lunches or dinners are "average Americans." The President plans to make other brief forays around the country, settling down for the night in the homes of private citizens. After his visit to Clinton this week, Carter will travel to Charleston, W. Va., for a conference on energy and coal, and then hop up to New York City to deliver a U.N. address that will outline his general views on foreign policy...
...major topic of conversation at the Bal Harbour meeting was this year's collective-bargaining calendar, which involves 5 million workers in such key industries as steel, aerospace, communications and coal mining. The consensus is that 1977 wage settlements could be hefty-at least as large as last year's average 8.3% increase for the first year of a contract. Moreover, greater emphasis than ever will be placed on job security...
Bruising Battle. The sharpest labor-management confrontation this year will be in the coal fields, where chances of a disastrous strike are great. One reason: United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is fighting a bruising battle to retain his post in a June election against the union's secretary-treasurer, Harry Patrick, and Lee Roy Patterson, another union official. Whoever wins, the souped-up promises of the campaign-fatter pay, expensive safety improvements-will have to be included in the union's demands and could cause coal operators to resist...
...addition, there will be Assistant Secretaries for conservation and environment. Among their other tasks, they are supposed to promote methods of energy saving and try to limit the ravages to the land that might occur as the Carter Administration presses ahead with the development of its favorite energy source, coal...
Carter is just beginning to receive position papers from his advisers on what his policies should be. But three major elements already are visible: 1) conservation of oil and gas by making them cost more, 2) greater use of coal, and 3) de-emphasis of nuclear power. Both Carter and Schlesinger (a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, among his other credits) agree that nuclear power is too expensive and too vulnerable on the safety issue. In his budget, Carter has cut $200 million from the fast-breeder reactor program. One reason: such reactors produce plutonium, which...