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...attorneys discovered the alleged violation while challenging section 20, another provision of the new law. They contend that section 20 requires a 90-day moratorium on all inductions until December...
Olds acknowledges his difficulties. He is aware that most of his students are disillusioned with the System, and that he cannot proceed with the business of education until the question of May 4 is adequately resolved. On top of that, he must contend with a hostile state legislature, which has proposed drastic cuts in the state education budget...
Rogers is likely to say as much to Mrs. Meir; in addition, U.S. officials will contend that even if they did approve Israel's purchase of more Phantoms, the planes would be a long time coming off production lines. The fact is that if Washington wanted to, it could provide the planes almost immediately. Two years ago, a fleet of 50 Phantoms for Israel was put together out of allotments ticketed for the U.S. Air Force; the planes were hurriedly swabbed with the white and blue insignia of Israel and rushed across the Atlantic. Plainly the Administration is sidetracking...
Jackson and has long been in charge of his fundraising. Another law-school classmate and Seattle jeweler, Paul Friedlander, is a big backer. Two other angels are Dan Martin, a large stockholder in the Los Angeles Rams, and Victor Carter, a Los Angeles philanthropist. Jackson's staffers contend that an insignificant portion of his financing flows from the military-industrial community. GEORGE McGOVERN. Though he stands at just 4% in the Democratic popularity polls, McGovern has the most admirable fund-raising operation of all. Without relying upon the checkbooks of the big spenders, he has raised...
Like other challengers, the Meat Cutters contend that the 1970 law on which the freeze was based vested "unbridled legislative power" in the President and amounted to a "naked grant of authority" for him to do what he pleased with the economy. Just such a "blank check" caused the Supreme Court to kill the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1935, the union argues. The butchers claim that a clause in the Constitution that prohibits states from passing laws "impairing the obligation of contracts" applies to Congress too. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills has also stated his belief that...