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When Richard Nixon signed into law the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act in 1974, it seemed to be one of those rare, unimpeachably wise legislative acts: the measure made 55 m.p.h. the national speed limit. Since automobiles operate more efficiently and far more safely at 55 than at higher speeds, the limit has in seven years saved more than 20 billion gal. of gasoline and as many as 60,000 lives...
...speed limit appears headed for a stretch of rough pavement. Bills to raise or circumvent the speed limit are under consideration in more than a score of state legislatures, particularly in the West, where ornery "sagebrush rebellion" sentiment fuels anger at all kinds of federal impositions. In some states, highway patrolmen are looking the other way as speeders pass. In others, such as Texas and California, fast drivers greatly outnumber police available to stop them. Last week in Nevada, a state consisting almost entirely of wide open spaces, the Governor signed a bill that makes speeders caught going no more...
...seems almost endless. And from this unwieldly mass of issues and debates come the material for his speeches. In his speech at the Beth Israel Hospital, for example. Nader used "the doctor's role in medicine" as an umbrella topic to take pot shots at the automotive industry, the highway industry, the drug companies, nuclear power and the makers of Wonder Bread. He sprays out facts and accusations like buckshot, aiming at everything and being reasonably sure he will hit something...
...within the university community. Long after the fiscal sting has disappeared, students, faculty, staff and administrators will remember the bitter struggle for scarce resources. The "open process" by which Mackey conducted the budget-cuts decision-making probably exacerbated the problem, as supporters of every program from the planetarium to highway-safety training pleaded for hours at open meetings. "I am sure we heard all the reasons why we can't make any cuts in any program." John B. Bruff, chairman of the board of trustees, said at one of the sessions...
...control of Zahle (pop. 200,000), a city in the Bekaa Valley, 25 miles east of Beirut. For eight days the Syrian forces, using field artillery, tank guns and rocket launchers, pounded Christian positions in and around the city, which is located just off the strategic Beirut-Damascus highway. Christian militiamen in the city and nearby hills returned the fire with their own artillery...