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Thus the administration of the foreign aid program was left just as it was: beset and beleaguered, and known largely for its failures. Those failures are well publicized: some ill-advised projects and scattered cases of misuse of funds by corrupt recipients. In an odd Gresham's Law, the...
Single-interest groups are needed because particular dams, freeways and threats to civil liberties have particular victims who do better by organizing a particular response. Without the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club, the nonEstablishment majority would have no one to defend them against the single-issue groups in and...
Endangered Species. A new Cabinet level committee was created to balance economic factors against environmental concerns when dams and other projects conflict with the Endangered Species Act, which protects birds, fish and animals that are threatened with extinction. Congress directed the agency to decide within four months whether work can...
For Gerhard Neumaier, president of Buffalo's Ecology and Environment, Inc., participation in the mission was a last desperate attempt to break into a market that for four years had rebuffed him. A specialist in analyzing the environmental ramifications of projects ranging from dams to industrial parks, Neumaier in...
Opponents of Long's measure were hastily trying over last weekend to make some basic changes. Ted Kennedy, for one, was seeking allies to keep the personal exemption at $750, a step that he figures will save $12 billion a year in federal revenues. That amount would then be...