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...that charges in the Manchester Union Leader about his sex life and drinking habits were "beneath contempt." Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker speechified at a Republican banquet in Concord. Former CIA Director George Bush preceded, and followed, all three. Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker is planning a foray. Former California Governor Ronald Reagan, fearful of not winning big enough if he does come in, is petrified that he will not be nominated at all if he stays out. And up in Durham, waiting for the call to marshal the state's Democrats behind their true love, Senator Edward Kennedy, sits...
Today U.S. foreign aid is a hodgepodge of programs with a muddle of purposes directed by a multitude of agencies. The main one is the Agency for International Development, and its chief, ex-Governor John Gilligan of Ohio, is leaving next month under pressure, in part because he offended too many people by trying to straighten out his department. AID is tangled up by more than 150 restrictive and sometimes contradictory congressional mandates. It is not astonishing that a program so confused within is so misunderstood on the outside...
...This foreign multinational has pulled out. I'd like to know why very quickly." So snapped California Governor Jerry Brown last week, when he heard about the startling decision made by Standard Oil of Ohio. After five years, $50 million in expenses and submission of more than 700 permits and applications, the company, which is part owned by British Petroleum, was abandoning its ill-starred effort to launch a $1 billion project that would have been of value to the entire nation. Sohio wanted to convert an unused 700-mile natural-gas pipeline to move Alaskan oil from Long...
When Sohio finally called it quits, California officials were stunned. Governor Brown's office sputtered that "only two final permits" were needed, and that approval could be expected within a week. Sohio officials were unimpressed. Said one: "We've been hearing that sort of thing for years...
Georgia's house of representatives passed a bill to give teachers a 9% raise this year, prompting protests from both Governor George Busbee and White House Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn. So last week the state senate mounted an effort to deflect the anger but save the increase: it voted a 10% raise bul split the payment in two−a 7% boost beginning next September and 3% in January. Illinois legislators voted themselves both a 25% raise this year (to $25,000) and a further 12% increase for next year. The commissioners on the board of Cook County, which...