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This lack of understanding can be seen in the decision to pump billions of dollars into the development of synthetic fuels. As Colorado's Democratic Governor Dick Lamm put it: "For us in the West the implications are almost unfathomable. Colorado has 80% of the nation's developable shale, vast amounts of coal and a great deal of uranium. Now we are being subjected to a crash program...
Westerners resent the bureaucratic decision to cut Amtrak service, something far more vital to Butte and Cheyenne than to Nashville or Columbus, and the general disregard of the gas crunch until it hit the East. Montana's Democratic Governor Thomas Judge, among other Western Governors, put out an urgent plea to the Department of Energy for help in securing diesel fuel for crop harvesting Said Judge: "I got absolutely nowhere I had to go out myself and buy 75,000 barrels from New York...
...reason for the delay, say the Governor's aides, is that the legislative session in Sacramento is still not over, forcing Brown to stay close to the capitol. He must also endure the harassment of Republican Lieutenant Governor Mike Curb, who tries to seize gubernatorial authority every time Brown ventures out side the state...
...idea, whatever its causes. With Jimmy Carter having his troubles in Washington, Brown has the luxury of waiting, and of not wearing out his welcome any further. Carter's declining popularity has boosted Brown's relative strength with no assist from the Governor himself. The New York Times-CBS poll recently showed Brown actually running slightly ahead of Carter in a direct pairing. Both men, of course, trail far be hind Ted Kennedy among Democrats surveyed...
...there was more concern in the Empire State last week about another kind of testing-admissions exams for colleges and graduate schools. The issue: Should the questions and answers on these exams, which are traditionally wrapped in secrecy, be released for public scrutiny? Yes, said New York's Governor Hugh Carey, who signed a state law requiring that, as of next Jan. 1, the tests be made public 30 days after students learn the results. No, said most of the national testing groups, including the Princeton, N.J., Educational Testing Service, which administers the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude...