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Three days before the incident at democracy wall, Liu had told TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein in Peking that he was morally prepared for arrest. Speaking for himself and the other editors of his magazine, Liu said, "We recognize that to achieve democracy, we will have to make some sacrifices-of blood, even of our lives. But we are ready to sacrifice for the sake of changing China." April Fifth Forum, which Liu had helped found, was named for the 1976 demonstration in Peking's Tiananmen Square when hundreds of people seeking to honor the late Premier Chou...
...fishermen, whose families have worked these waters for 350 years, all this makes Georges Bank far too precious a place to sink an oil well. Another appeal has been filed to stop the auction, though its chances seem slim. If the leases are sold, the fishermen will have a grace period of from six months to a year while the oil companies make preparations to drill. That means time for a new and different case on different grounds. But the fishermen's hope will be the same: to keep their livelihood alive and well...
...legislation to the White House. One act would create an Energy Mobilization Board, which would be able to bulldoze through bureaucratic red tape, legal roadblocks and laws, like the Clean Air Act, that now delay refineries, pipelines and other energy projects. The board would have the power to make some decisions for federal, state or local agencies that were delaying needed developments. The House-passed bill goes further than Carter proposed and gives the board power even to overturn federal laws, although state and local ones remain outside its domain, Arizona Democrat Morris Udall and other Capitol Hill environmentalists feared...
With the two bills now virtually wrapped up, the Senate also began debate last week on the toughest Carter proposal: a new tax on extra profits that U.S oil companies could make from OPEC price increases. Because the price of American petroleum has been controlled by Washington since 1973, most domestic oil sells for only about half as much as OPEC crude. To encourage both conservation and exploration, the President proposed raising U.S. prices to world levels. But he linked that measure to an additional 50% tax on the oil companies' so-called windfall profits. Under Carter...
...Chrysler. Fears of buying a car from a company that may go bankrupt and a temporary halt in the rebate campaign combined to sink sales by 44.5% in early November. Chrysler has yard-long waiting lists for the popular front-wheel-drive Omni and Horizon models but cannot make them fast enough...