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ENERGY. Both Reagan and Ford would eliminate price controls on domestic gas and oil to encourage industry to discover and develop new wells. Says Reagan: "The problem is not a lack of energy. It is Government regulations which deter, rather than promote, the extraction of it."
Even drinking water is suspect. Researchers studying the New Orleans and Cincinnati water supplies found that chlorine, added to water to kill harmful bacteria, can combine with certain pollutants to form compounds that may cause cancer; cancer rates in the New Orleans area, which draws its water from the lowermost...
Rule of Law. How does this newest ethnic lobby function? In Congress the American Greek community has worked mainly through Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri and Congressmen John Brademas of Indiana, Paul Sarbanes of Maryland and Benjamin Rosenthal of New York. Only Brademas and Sarbanes are of Greek extraction (there...
Like any immigrant group, Arab Americans have found their way in a variety of occupations-as peddlers, small shopkeepers, cooks, restaurant owners, then lawyers, doctors, engineers. Now they point proudly to such men as Ralph Nader, Comedian Danny Thomas, Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey and former Pan Am President Najeeb Halaby...
William Edward Burghardt DuBois was born in the small rural community of Great Barrington, Mass. on February 23, 1868. In his autobiography he remembered these years as being free of racial conflict or identity. His ancestry was mixed--his father, a shopkeeper, was of French and West Indian extraction, while...