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...state set-aside was boosted from 3% to 5% so that spot shortages could be eased, and the five-month-average base was introduced in an effort to deal with seasonal population shifts-but the problems have not been solved. Criticisms are now mounting; last week the state of Maryland filed a lawsuit against DOE, challenging the allocation system as unfair. Says Economist Walter Heller: "I've heard it said that if God wanted us to have gasoline, he would never have created the Department of Energy...
Americans last week began getting an unpleasant taste of what lies ahead. Gasoline lines, which once seemed a temporary California phenomenon, were snaking through the suburbs of Washington and streets of Manhattan, and by last week had spread all up and down the Eastern seaboard. Seven states?Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia?and the District of Columbia had to begin odd-even allocation. Independent truckers, who charge that rising fuel prices are depriving them of a livelihood, started a strike that soon led to food shortages, scattered violence and threats of worse to come. Although...
...representatives of small operators met in Washington to draw up plans with William Hill, chairman of the shaky Independent Truckers Unity Coalition. But many of them walked out in anger over Hill's insistence on a 10% rate increase and his highhanded tactics. Explained Ted Brooks, who represents Maryland independents: "We feel that holding out for 10% is unfair to the public and is going to result in nothing but bad publicity for the independents...
...blocking House approval of a $50 million military grant to Turkey. Since 1974 two leaders of the lobby have acquired more power-but no more sympathy for the Turkish position. Congressman John Brademas of Indiana is now the No. 3 man in the House Democratic leadership. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland has moved from a congressional seat up to the Senate...
William R. Grant, education writer for the Detroit Free Press, and Michael J. Kirk, public affairs director for Seattle television station KCTS will also spend next year at Harvard, as will Lynda M. McDonnel, a business and labor reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, and Judith Nichol, Maryland editor of the Washington Post...