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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many power-generating companies would switch from oil to coal if the U.S. removed the need for expensive scrubbers on plants that use low-sulfur Western coal. The U.S. also has to dig more coal mines (including strip mines), build more and safer nuclear plants, construct more oil refineries, drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: How to Counter OPEC | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Byrd has not made up his mind about the treaty, and the Carter White House badly needs him on its side if the pact is to stand any chance of passage. Thus the Administration accommodatingly lent Byrd Carter's own back-up jet, Air Force Two, a passel of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Senate and the Soviets | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

The Kremlin is well aware of Byrd's key role in this fall's treaty debate and agreed to a private meeting between him and Brezhnev, who is vacationing in the Crimea. Byrd is expected to tell the Soviet leader that any further pronouncements like Gromyko's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Senate and the Soviets | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Another potential victim of the tapes is Tennessee's Howard Baker, who played a leading role on the Senate Watergate Committee while managing to maintain close ties with the White House. Insists Ron McMahan, the Senator's press secretary: "Baker knows that his conversations with Nixon will be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Damaging Tales | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

¶ National Pro-Life Political Action Committee. Based in Chicago, this group is headed by Father Charles Fiore, 45, a Dominican priest with a reddish beard and a combative temperament that sometimes offends his superiors. When Father Fiore urged Catholics to stop contributing to any community fund drive benefiting organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fanatical Abortion Fight | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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