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Citing the highway system and building standards, Engler said institutions that do not promote energy conservation are responsible for the nation's energy problems. "The vulnerability issue i not going to go away. The Middle East is not going to stabilize tomorrow," he said, adding that America must adjust its foreign policy to the realities of the issue...
...other side of Fort Lauderdale, in a loft on U.S. Highway 1, volunteers in blue Kennedy T shirts were also working at a bank of phones, trying to line up blocs of voters-from elderly residents of condominiums to youthful opponents of nuclear power. The volunteers are fired up with a sense of mission. Said Salesman John Adams: "The whole world is watching. We have a chance to bring big change in the country, right from this county...
...free enterprise, but the free-enterprise system has gone to hell. Other companies have gotten federal aid, but it was "different." The Federal Housing Administration loan guarantees are "different." The agricultural subsidies on tobacco are "different." Everything is "different." Where were the free enterprisers in '67 with the Highway Safety Act, in '70 with the Clean Air Act and in '75 with the Fuel Conservation Act? Those laws have us so regulated that a while ago, when GM put out a price rise of $244, $186 of it was ascribed to Government mandates...
...political activists, the commission persuaded the late Mayor Richard Daley to establish a citizens police review committee made up of appointees whom they recommended. Even government corruption is a target of the more aggressive commissions, like those in Chicago, Kansas City, and New Orleans. Says Frank Maudlin, an ex-highway patrolman who heads the Kansas City commission: "Organized crime runs hand in hand with the corruption of officials...
...bloodshed had only begun. Late that same afternoon a three-vehicle convoy of British soldiers moved along a highway just inside the Ulster border. On the one side was Narrow Water, a peaceful estuary of Carlingford Lough; on the other a golf course. When the convoy passed a trailerload of hay parked beside the road, a huge bomb exploded, blasting a three-ton army truck across the highway and spewing wreckage and human bodies into the air. Surviving paratroopers radioed for help, and a contingent of the Queen's Own Highlanders, including its commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel David Blair...