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...with other central banks, to strengthen the greenback, and had already been moving "more actively" in buying dollars to prop up their price. Second, the Administration would step up efforts to get Congress to pass Carter's energy program, which would reduce oil imports and thus stem the drain of dollars out of the U.S. Indeed, Carter personally lobbied House members to work out a compromise to end a fierce dispute over natural gas pricing. Finally, they spoke of both a flat ban on any new federal programs and of cuts in existing ones. The goal: to pare...
They need help but where is it to come from? The Hooker Corp., which violated no laws at the time it was dumping, has helped to finance the investigation and the construction of a ditch to drain the dump, but acknowledges no liability for damages. City officials are unsure of their power to clean up what is, for the most part, private property...
Many of them are unemployed. Those who have found jobs generally work as unskilled laborers, sugar-cane cutters or deliverymen. Most of them live in the crowded apartments of northeast Miami. Some Miamians, including many Cubans, complain that the Haitians are a potential drain on government assistance and should be sent home. But, because they are in the U.S. illegally, they do not qualify for welfare or other government help. The National Council of Churches has, since 1974, provided them with $500,000 worth of emergency housing, food and medicine...
...Syrian President Hafez Assad, Lebanon threatens to become a Viet Nam: by pulling his forces out, he risks the renewal of civil war and possibly the installation of a pro-Israeli government in Beirut; by keeping his troops in Lebanon indefinitely, he creates a costly morale and manpower drain on his own country. TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis, recently in Syria and Lebanon, reports...
...hostility to China's policy of rapprochement with the U.S. and the Third World and to Peking's warming relations with Albania's longtime enemy, Yugoslavia. Instead of attempting to patch up the quarrel, Peking apparently decided it was time to end the Albanian drain on China's resources-more than $4 billion since 1954. According to the official Chinese news agency, Peking had been showering grain, steel, tractors and trucks on the ungrateful Albanians when China could not spare them. "The Chinese people scrimped on food and clothing and tried their best to aid Albania...