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...shortage becomes a crippling 20%, as the law now requires. This is also a victory for Eizenstat, but there are problems with that plan. Carter's request will have a tough time passing Congress, which set the 20% requirement last year to make rationing only a last-ditch action. Also, details of an emergency rationing plan are not expected to be ready before this autumn. It will contain many exemptions that the public will consider unfair; for example, people with company cars stand to get considerably more gas than ordinary drivers. The sad result of all this...
...allowing him into Iran under pressure from the threat of sanctions. It was the sort of face-saving gesture that has earned the Secretary-General a reputation as a master of diplomatic technicalities and procedures, but its effect was undercut by Vance. Asked if Waldheim's last-ditch diplomacy was the result of U.S. prodding, the Secretary of State forthrightly replied: "I think it is, and I'm delighted...
...woods of northern Minnesota. He flew to Alaska four times and spent 14 days on Attu, a bleak island in the Aleutians, where he saw the green sandpiper. On July 27 he surpassed the previous one-year record by spotting bird No. 658, an American woodcock, near a ditch in Chicago. In early December he flew to Texas in successful pursuit of the white-collared seedeater. That brought...
Unsympathetic to the Crimson cause, the Big Green shoved the cagers into a ditch with a 77-57 walloping in Hanover...
...turn on his MATEP that's only a ditch...