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...amendment to the National Highway Act that would allow states to diver Federal highway funds towards the creation of bikeways. The measure is still in a House Committee, but its passage was seen yesterday as "pretty certain" by Doug Adler, a spokesman for the amendment's sponsor, Representative Edward Koch...
Afraid that Littlefeather would make a militant speech if she were called on to receive an award for Brando, academy officials held a panicked powwow. "We even considered arresting her," admitted Howard Koch, the show's producer. (The tickets were supposedly nontransferable.) With stars taking their seats all around, Koch decided to talk to her instead; she promised not to read a yawning five-page speech on the plight of the Indians that Brando had prepared...
Helping the farmers is an unlikely ally: the National Limestone Institute. Although only 4% of the industry's output is purchased by farmers, Lobbyist Robert Koch is putting up a 100% fight to save REAP. The institute has sent out 15,000 protest letters to various policymakers as well as to county agents and farmers...
...second line of Tim O'Connell, Roger Mallette and Bill Koch rank third, sixth and seventh in team scoring, while the third line of Willie MacKinnon, Chris Miller and Chris Hurley account for only 35 points on the season...
...have asked Congress to reduce REAP appropriations. But as the only Agriculture Department program that distributes money (some $8 billion since 1936) in all 3,060 U.S. farm counties, REAP has vocal farmer-defenders in every state. Businessmen who sell to farmers also benefit-and speak up politically. Robert Koch, president of the National Limestone Institute, mutters darkly that if REAP is killed, "our land will get worn out and go the way of India and China." The pro-REAP coalition has managed to get new money voted for REAP every year...