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Tiny Amount. With Carter's campaign endorsement of an agency, consumer groups were more confident of victory this year. Yet in the House, many members question whether consumers would really be served by another layer of bureaucrats and red tape. Instead of creating a new consumer agency, the Congressmen suggest, the public can get along with the regulatory agencies-even though some critics think they also need reforming-and the 13 separate consumer offices that Gerald Ford set up within major departments...
...spray can about to go the way of the giant moa? For the past two years it has seemed so, because evidence has mounted that fluorocarbon, which is used as a propellant in numerous aerosol sprays, is depleting the ozone layer of the earth's atmosphere and increasing worldwide the danger of skin cancer from the sun's radiation. Last week three federal agencies announced a timetable for phasing out fluorocarbons from all "nonessential" uses-including deodorants, hair sprays and perfumes-by the spring...
...Gavras subsequent tracts has come close to capturing the gut-rending tension that glues the viewer of Z to the edge of his seat. Yves Montand turns in yet another tour de force as the pacifist legislator whose brutal assassination triggers the investigation that inexorably leads to the top layer of the Junta: Bear in mind, however, that no Watergate-style denouement awaits the generals. Irene Pappas' brooding widow adds little to the film; the role limits her to a couple of disconsolate weeping sessions and some blank stares. But Jean-Louis Tritignant provides the needed complement to Montand...
...words of junior number two layer Todd Lundy, "It's not going to be a very easy weekend...
Campaign Pledge. A new layer of bureaucracy is the very thing Carter wants least. On the same day that he endorsed ACA, the President also signed legislation enabling him to follow through on another campaign pledge -to reorganize and reduce the size of the Federal Government. Carter proposed initial funding of only $11 million or $12 million annually for ACA. Said Esther Peterson, the new presidential assistant for consumer affairs, whose task will be to lobby the proposal on Capitol Hill: "I am not for Big Business or Big Bureaucracy. We have to start small." If past experience...