Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern states fell into that category. After the passage of the act, black registration in the South rose from 1 million to 3.5 million, and black officeholders from 72 to 1,600. But the act expires on Aug. 6. In dispute was whether to extend it and for how long...
President Ford, apparently appealing to Southern audiences, weighed in with a statement that any extension should apply equally to all states, a theoretically admirable suggestion with little practical purpose. (And the new measure does extend coverage to other groups such as Indians, Latins in the Southwest and Asiatics in Hawaii.) Though the South claims that the Voting Rights Act represents a kind of reverse discrimination, there may be no other way of continuing to restrain pressures against black voting. Except for one minor compromise - extending the act for seven years instead of the ten years voted by the House - Senate...
...Egyptian spokesman last week for a diplomatic move by Cairo that caught Jerusalem and Washington by surprise. With the latest mandate for the United Nations peace-keeping forces in the Sinai due to expire this week, Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy announced that Egypt would not agree to extend it unless immediate progress is made hi reaching a second-stage disengagement agreement with Israel. Fahmy's threat raised the possibility that the blue-bereted U.N. wedge between Israeli and Egyptian forces in the desert peninsula might have to be pulled out, that peace negotiations might break down, and that...
...Cuts. At minimum, Congress will probably extend through 1976 the $9.4 billion in "emergency" tax cuts enacted this year. The Administration may eventually accept that approach; Treasury Secretary William Simon opposes it as unnecessary, but concedes that "I will lose." Beyond that, some economists and politicians are becoming convinced that additional, deeper tax cuts will be required; the Congressional Budget Office suggests $15 billion. No amount can possibly be decided, though-and no action begun-before the nation finds out just how much and how fast oil prices will rise...
Soviet writers must receive an invitation from another country before their application for a passport will be considered. Ulam said the center is "glad to extend invitations so some writers could apply for a passport...