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...smoothly through the House last August was being dismembered by a rambunctious Senate (see story page 10). The House and a great many other Americans were preparing to pounce on Carter's long-awaited tax reforms expected this week. On the foreign affairs front, the President approved a joint statement with the Soviet Union on the Middle East -and barely managed through the week to convince Jerusalem and American Jews that he was not betraying Israel (see cover story page 25). Meanwhile, he was catching heavy flak over his proposed Panama Canal treaties, both from a Senate committee...
...uniformed officers and their civilian boss, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, made a strong case that continued U.S. use of the canal, and American defense of it, would be much better ensured if the treaties are accepted than if they are rejected. Contended General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: "United States military interests in the Panama Canal are in its use, not its ownership. Our capability to defend the Panama Canal will be enhanced through cooperation with the government of Panama...
...require a market price of perhaps as much as $25 per bbl. to make it profitable. Yet even at the present average U.S. price of $11.50 per bbl. for newly discovered domestic oil, Ashland Oil and Occidental Petroleum last month were given federal approval to begin development of a joint shale-oil project in western Colorado...
...skim off patients and dollars at a time when they are hard pressed to keep their facilities in full use, many hospitals have established their own one-day surgery units. Some doctors are wary of recommending the private clinics, none of which have yet received the approval of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. By contrast, the American Medical Association has backed the idea for several years. The American College of Surgeons is reconsidering its initial opposition to the independent clinics, as opposed to hospital-affiliated ones. And while some insurance companies and Blue Cross plans originally suspected that...
Perhaps, because the old Trib did not go gently into that good nightside. The paper's overseas edition, the International Herald Tribune (circ. 118,000), is still published in Paris by IHT Corp., a joint venture of the New York Times, Washington Post and Whitney Communications, the old Trib's last owner. Accordingly, IHT Corp. is suing the owners of the new Trib for trademark infringement. The Trib, in turn, has sued IHT and the Times for harassment and antitrust violations, asking $7.5 million in treble damages. Saffir accuses IHT of trying to prevent his paper from appearing...