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While savoring their hard-fought plane-sale victory, Administration officials tried to play down its significance to both the winners and the losers. In capitals around the world, the Senate vote raised a significant question: How far had the U.S. modified its Middle East policy...
Long frustrated by the legal appeals of environmentalists, fishermen, beach-front homeowners and hoteliers, the nation's energy companies at last will begin drilling for oil and gas off the Northeast Coast by early summer. The oilmen won a hard-fought victory last week when the U.S. Supreme Court, by refusing to hear an appeal of a lower-court decision, signaled a go-ahead to exploit acreage near the Baltimore Canyon, which lies 50 to 90 miles off Atlantic City, N.J. The most optimistic geologists estimate that this tract contains up to 1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9 trillion...
...hour to $3.35 by 1981, an increase of 45%. Unlike in past efforts, the unions pulled out all stops to press for the measure, putting together a potent coalition of blacks, womens' groups, church and labor leaders. Said AFL-CIO Spokesman Al Zack of labor's hard-fought campaign: "This time we went to the Hill and lobbied on a person-to-person basis...
...liberal Senators had exploited a loophole in famed Rule 22, the hard-fought cloture provision for shutting off Senate debate. Just before cloture had been approved by more than the required three-fifths of the Senate, Abourezk and Metzenbaum had introduced no fewer than 508 amendments. Each amendment could thus be called up for a time-consuming vote. The Senate had run through only about 200 of them-and seven days, including one 37-hour session-when serious moves began among the Senate leadership to curtail the filibuster. The two filibuster leaders said they would end the talkathon if Carter...
...steel industry, once noted for hard-fought strikes, has for most of the past two decades been a model of labor tranquillity. In 1973, the United Steelworkers even formally surrendered the right to strike the basic steel industry over "economic" (wage and benefit) issues; in a widely hailed Experimental Negotiating Agreement (ENA), it pledged to submit pay disputes to binding arbitration. But last week more than 14,000 iron-ore miners shattered steel's separate peace by walking off their jobs in Michigan and Minnesota. It was the first substantial strike in any segment of basic steel...