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Russell Long and Jimmy Carter disagree sharply on a fundamental point involving the energy program: conservation v. exploration. The linchpin of Carter's proposals is conservation, with a series of stiff taxes on energy use that would be returned to the public in rebates and incentives. Long supports energy taxes in broad outline, but as the senior Senator from a state rich in gas and oil, he has other ideas about who should get the money. He wants to return it to gas and oil producers as a spur to finding new fields and to earmark some...
...develop their own techniques for dealing with death. Cynical Deacon (Frank Adu) sells photos of the latest enemy kills as if they had been bagged on safari. Simple-minded Straw (Donald Warfield) tends the bodies with gentle piety. Others deal in raw humor or are narcotized by whores. The linchpin of the play is Micah (John Heard), a college boy for whom Nam, as they call it, is agonizing shorthand for the delayed initiation rite of manhood...
Sanders looks for team rebounding to be the linchpin of the hoopsters' brand of ball if the season is to be a success. "We don't be in the game against strong teams if we let them get a second chance to score," he says. "We're talking a ball-control type offense so we can control the pace of the game," he says...
...federal judge last week found the N.F.L.'s reserve system in violation of antitrust laws. This time, ruling on a suit filed by John Mackey, former Colts tight end and past president of the N.F.L. Players Association, Minneapolis Judge Earl Larson ripped the so-called Rozelle rule, linchpin of the reserve system. Calling it "an unreasonable restraint of trade," he concluded that the reserve clause "is so clearly contrary to public policy that it is per se illegal...
Indeed, in a speech in Hollywood, Fla., Ford backed off from his previous description of the oil-tariff boost as the linchpin of his program. Instead, he called the increase "an administrative action taken solely for the purpose of forcing the Congress to act." Just as pointedly, he softened his criticism of Congress, not delivering in the Florida speech his prepared remarks declaring that by failing to move swiftly Congress was pursuing a "course [that] could lead America to disaster...