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...have enough problems on Capitol Hill, Jimmy Carter faces increasing congressional opposition to the new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) that his negotiators hope to hammer out with the Soviet Union before the end of the year. Closed-door briefings by Administration officials for selected Senators have given SALT's critics something to criticize...
Herbert H. Hammer...
...this session, but when the proposals do get to Congress, Long will probably have more to do with their final shape than any other legislator. Right now, as the Senate's spokesman in the Joint House-Senate Committee on Energy, he is at the center of the struggle to hammer out an energy plan. Plainly, Long will play an important role in shaping the American economy and life-style for the remainder of the century...
...sleazy journalism." The "Spotlight Team," it noted, trailed Vellucci for only one day and failed to report that he legitimately signed out for the day before returning to Cambridge. The Real Paper discounted the Globe report as an easy wedge for the city's big real estate interests to hammer into chinks in the mayor's supposedly shining armor...
...week's end Carter turned a successful threeday, six-stop westward trip into a campaign to inspire grass roots support for his program. In Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and California, Carter seized every chance he could find to hammer home the point that nothing less than the economic and military security of the nation rested on the fate of his energy legislation. He also placed his own prestige on the line, declaring at one point: "I have equated the energy policy legislation with either success or failure of my first year in office as a leader of our country...