Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party knows that whatever is done to reduce energy consumption will be highly unpopular, and each is maneuvering to force the other to take the heat. The House last week rejected a Ford plan to lift price controls on domestic oil gradually over 39 months. Congress voted instead to extend controls for six months-a bill that Ford, in turn, has vowed to veto. If he does and is sustained, the controls will expire on Aug. 31 and gas prices will rise, but who would be blamed most in the struggle is unclear. What does seem clear is that Ford...
Slow Progress. Meanwhile, a drumfire of anger punctuated the disengagement discussion. Egypt unexpectedly announced that it would not, as anticipated, automatically extend a mandate for United Nations peacekeeping forces in Sinai in view of the slow progress toward peace. War Minister Mohammed Abdul Ghani Gamassy issued an order of the day to his army: "Stand fully ready to complete the assignment which you carried out in one stage on the sixth of October...
Sadat's Ploy. After milking the melodramatic possibilities of the threat, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, only 30 hours before the old mandate expired, magnanimously accepted a "dawn appeal" by the U.N. Security Council to extend it for three more months (rather than six as suggested by Israel). Egyptian spokesmen insisted that Sadat's ploy had succeeded, since it had alerted the world to the dangerous potentialities of the Sinai situation. Some observers suspected that the President had made his threat in order to convince Egypt's more militant Arab allies that he can be tough...
Speaking before a special one-week session of the legislature-whose approval was necessary under the constitution to extend the emergency beyond 60 days-Mrs. Gandhi sought to justify the extreme measures her government has taken. They include the suspension of civil liberties, the imposition of rigid press censorship and the arrest of an estimated 10,000 people, among them ranking opposition political leaders as well as some dissident members of Mrs. Gandhi's own Congress Party. Arguing that the emergency "was undertaken not to destroy the constitution but to safeguard democracy," she said the proclamation had been...
Before long, too, the Government will have to make up its mind what help, if any, it is prepared to extend to Pan Am and the other major U.S. international airline, TWA (which lost $86.8 million in the first half of 1975). One senior Pan Am executive has constructed what he calls a "prayer mat": a graph that contrasts the lavish government benefits received by foreign airlines with the absence of any special assistance...