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...will occur. Both the Senate Energy Committee and DOE predict that by 1985 greater production of natural gas will save the nation 1.4 million bbl. a day in imported oil. Consumer groups deny there will be any such saving. Much depends, of course, on how innumerable lawyers interpret a bill that even they have trouble understanding. But at least, after 18 months, the Senate finally voted on a national plan to conserve energy...
...there are two problems. One is that for the time being this "framework" is just words. The other is that Begin has already begun to re-interpret several major concessions--on the moratorium on West Bank settlements, and on Israeli military withdrawal from the West Bank--in a way that gives reason to wonder whether it will ever be more than words. It is therefore legitimate for the Arab states to be keeping their distance from the Camp David agreements, at least until they hear spelled out in more detail what the specifics of the West Bank negotiations...
...Though people have felt keenly about waste for a long time, the breadth of this feeling is new. Back in 1958, 42% agreed with the statement, "Government wastes a lot of money we pay in taxes." In 1968, 60% agreed and this year the figure is 78%. Fully 80% interpret Proposition 13 as a call to trim excessive spending...
...appeal hearing, a trial that may test the DEQE's power to impose certain prohibitions on construction is also slated for this fall. The DEQE has approved the portions of the power plant designed to produce steam and chilled water, but prohibited installation of the diesel generators. University counsels interpret these decisions as permitting installation of all the components of the power plant other than the generators...
...second consensus, resisted to the end by some members of the Curia, was that the church, whatever its farflung political and administrative problems, needed a pastoral Pope. "It is one thing to interpret the faith and another to convey it to the people in the parishes," said one ranking Curia prelate. "That is something that the bishops-whatever their theology-understand better than the Curialists at their little desks...