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Last week's Senate bill, co-sponsored by Democrats Frank Moss of Utah and Warren Magnuson of Washington, requires states to meet specific no-fault standards within four years or else adopt an even more stringent federal plan. To meet the minimum requirements, insurance companies must pay all medical and rehabilitation expenses of their injured customers, compensate victims for lost wages up to a maximum that ranges from $17,000 to $35,000 a year (depending on the state's income levels), and pay funeral expenses for a driver killed in a crash. The companies must also foot...
Stiff Opposition. According to supporters of the Moss-Magnuson bill, national no-fault insurance will do much to distribute insurance payments more equitably. Under the existing system, insurers tend to fight large claims vigorously, giving the most seriously injured and the families of those who are killed only a fifty-fifty chance of collecting. Smaller claimants, by threatening expensive court action, can often win out-of-court settlements worth many times the actual cost of their injuries...
White is lobbying hard for a bill, introduced by Senators Warren Magnuson and Adlai Stevenson III, to establish a national oil company to compete with private producers. This proposed federal corporation would explore and drill for oil and gas on public lands. The price of its output would be strictly related to the cost of production, and so is supposed to serve as a yardstick by which to measure the profit margins of private companies. "The bill," White says, "has a chance, a bare chance, to pass...
...Associate Editor Ed Magnuson, this week's is his 15th cover story dealing with Watergate."By now," he says, "I'm addicted." Nation Picture Researcher Alice Rose George assembled photos of the cast of 43 characters that accompanies the story, and Reporter-Researcher Robert Goldstein, who has also been working on Watergate all year, interviewed a number of prominent lawyers and historians. He, along with several other TIME editors and correspondents, met the judge at a dinner in Washington not long ago. By this time, Sirica had been told he was being considered for Man of the Year...
...authors even wrote that the conspiracy trial of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans opened in New York City; in fact it was postponed. Watergate is an unfinished story. This book, however, bears brisk witness to an important fact: it is far too early to forget or forgive. · Ed Magnuson...