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...consume." On a swing through Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano strayed from his talks on welfare problems to argue that the poor would suffer most if the Senate failed to approve Carter's plan to rebate the wellhead tax on crude oil to consumers. Califano protested that less well-to-do Americans would not be compensated for the higher price of their heating oil under Senate bills...
...increased to 9.5%, it would mean more business for the U.S. shippers and more jobs for U.S. seamen, but, economists estimate, it could cost the nation an additional $300 million for foreign oil. Because of higher transportation costs, the big petroleum companies would have to pay more for Arabian crude and charge more for gasoline at the pump. Hence the curious coalition between giants of the industry and consumer advocates in lobbying against the bill...
Richard Brooks has made so many crude miscalculations in adapting Judith Ressner's bestselling novel to the screen that it is surprising that he mustered the wisdom to pick Diane Keaton as his star. In the role of Theresa Dunn, a Catholic schoolteacher who cruises singles bars at night, Keaton is everything the rest of this movie is not: provocative, affecting, scary. She creates a heroine who is at once sexual aggressor and victim, lady and tramp, and she relentlessly savages most pat notions about the nature of womanhood. It is a spectacularly daring performance whose meaning sadly eludes...
...will emphasize efforts to design an American satellite killer to defend against the Soviet version. In September the Defense Department quietly awarded the $58.7 million contract for its own ASAT program to the Vought Corp. of Dallas. The U.S. plan is to leap frog the relatively crude Soviet ASAT technology and put into space by the mid-1980s hunter-killer satellites armed with lasers that could vaporize metal in 20 billionths of a second...
...after the Pianelli kidnaping, Italian police rescued Medical Student Giuseppe Luppino, 21, from captivity in a crude hut near the southern Italian village of Seminara. After Luppino's seizure more than a month ago, his ft earlobe had been cut off and sent to his father with a note saying, "Unless you pay us 500 million lire, you'll get me head of your son, not just...