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...Governors admitted, however, that the Federal Government in most cases steps in only because state governments have neglected their responsibilities. "Frequently," observed Vermont's Philip Hoff, "the states which cry the loudest for tax sharing are those which have failed to come to grips with their own tax problems." Even while conceding past errors, the Governors agreed that the states are ready to play a stronger role in the federal system. Their prelude promised that in statehouses and on Capitol Hill, federal-state relations will be more closely scrutinized this year than they have been for a generation...
...Charlotte, N.C., to address a Chamber of Commerce dinner, Romney took on the Southerners in their own territory. "As far as I am concerned," he said, "states have no rights. Only people have rights. I know that some of those who shout the loudest about states' rights are laggards in state responsibility. Obstructionism masquerading as states' rights is the height of folly." Then he flew to New York, where he held a full-blown, big-league press conference during which he knocked the Johnson Administration's economic policy ("We should have had a tax increase a year...
...march pace on the drama, though he has a gift for composing some tableaux that unfold with the dreamy slow-motion grace of an underwater ballet. Smoldering with anger and frustration, Gloria Foster commands the stage but cannot control her part. Her vocal range tends to be loud, louder, loudest, and she has yet to learn that the seat of passion is not the larynx...
...part of the world never known for unity, the oil-rich countries of the Middle East have been unusually har monious in demanding "akthar, akthar" (more, more) from the Western oil consortiums. The loudest voice has come from Syria, which has no wells but makes do with the next-best thing: a 305-mile stretch of the pipeline through which the Iraq Petroleum Co. pumps oil from its Iraq field to the Syrian port of Baniyas on the Mediterranean. Last week, after weeks of futile negotiations on new rates, Damascus seized the pipeline "to achieve the full rights...
...student received the loudest applause of the evening when he replied, "Some of the problem here is that they...