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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House then thumbed down the plan, 246 to 159. One reason was that the same compromise that placated farm-state Senators angered urban Congressmen. Pennsylvania and California Representatives, whose states would have got less gas than under Carter's original proposal, voted heavily against it. Republicans seized on the chance to voice ideological hostility to Government regulation -and embarrass a Democratic President making an unpopular proposal. "We do not need rationing; we need production!" cried John Ashbrook of Ohio. But the biggest reason for the turndown was simple fear that a vote even for stand-by rationing...
...before the package fell apart. Explained House Democratic Whip John Brademas: "The liberals are unhappy because they didn't get as much as they want. We take the position that if the resolution is voted down, the consequence will be not more money, but less. We've got a lot of new guys who are antsy. We had to keep them on board. Peer pressure had its effect. They're not a bunch of irresponsible knotheads...
...fairness, Jimmy Carter has had an intellectual grasp of the energy problem since the day he walked into the Oval Office. He rightly declared the moral equivalent of war early in his term to cope with the impending crisis. He got little help from any other segment of American society. And transferring his statistical conclusions into leadership in such a hostile environment has been and remains an immense problem. Having formulated the energy plan and declared it publicly, he turned to other things. Energy slipped down his list...
...bluntly warned her guest that Britain would not be "a soft touch" for the European Community. Schmidt, who got along famously with "my good friend Jim," was asked at a press conference how he expected to do with Thatcher. "I have no doubt," he answered cheerfully, "that we shall get on rather fine...
...Shah!" shouted Iranian students as they hurled rocks and bottles at his sister's house in Beverly Hills last January. But now that they have got what they wanted and Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has been driven from the Peacock Throne, most of the students are not any happier. Only a relative few are returning to the country for whose liberation they had protested so vociferously...