Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Nixon may be well advised to look into alternative remedies before he presents his legislation on preventive detention to Congress. In view of the delicate constitutional issues involved, the Administration could wait to see if any other approach will work before prescribing a variety of prevention that, in some ways, may turn out to be worse than the problem itself...
...mortality." The Surgeon General, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare have brought out steadily stronger reports, including evidence that the average heavy smoker dies eight years sooner than the nonsmoker. HEW began distributing pamphlets to schools, warning of the dangers of smoking. Congress in 1965 ordered that cigarette packs must carry the warning "Caution: Cigarette Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Health." Twenty months ago, the Federal Communications Commission ordered that the television and radio networks must donate "significant" time to the American Cancer Society and other organizations to rebut cigarette commercials...
...delivered what could be the heaviest blow of all. By a 6-to-1 vote, the commissioners ruled that all cigarette advertising should be banned from TV and radio. Whether the FCC really has the power to order and enforce such a ban will be decided ultimately by Congress, and perhaps in the courts. Last week's ruling was the opening shot in what shapes up as an incendiary battle that will carry through 1969 and probably beyond...
Europe's Advantage. The U.S.'s Committee for Economic Development, a group of top executives, argues that VAT should be considered as a partial replacement for corporate income taxes. Congress so far shows no inclination to consider such fundamental changes. In Geneva, American negotiators have been pushing for a sensible change in GATT rules to allow U.S. companies to receive export rebates based on corporate income taxes and other "direct" taxes. In his final economic message, President Johnson asked for Europe's help in revising the rules "so that they no longer give a special advantage...
...September 1967 speech to Congress, Laird's predecessor, Robert McNamara, described Sentinel as a "thin" system intended to meet the threat of a missile attack from China through 1975. No system, McNamara said, could be adequately effective against Russia's sophisticated arsenal, and he opposed any attempt to develop one. Russia would respond only by developing its offensive missiles until they can out-number or elude our anti-missiles, launching the crazy spiral of an arms race...