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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consumer groups also oppose the bill, even though the Administration contends that it would lower prices. Energy Secretary Donald Hodel estimates that residential gas rates could drop as much as 5% in the first year under the mea sure, cheaper) that oil costs about $31 per bbl. (and more if crude is cheaper). But the Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition, the main consumer antideregulation lobby, argues Says prices would go up, not down, by perhaps 67% within four years. Says Edwin Rothschild, assistant director, referring to an Administration argument: "They that that as much gas will be falling in price as will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gas Plan: Winners and Losers | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Mofaz told the court that according to another officer, the tough West Bank mea sures were sanctioned by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Mofaz's lawyer now has presented to the military court two memorandums that were written by Chief of Staff Eitan. Though the documents were not released by the court, a summary of their contents has been published in Israeli newspapers. In one memorandum, Eitan recommended expulsion from the West Bank for convicted demonstrators and stone throwers. He also called for "preventive arrests," harassment of suspected troublemakers, punishment for the parents of teen-age protesters and economic sanctions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East If: We Will Do What We Please | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

Nothing provokes a brouhaha in the intellectual circles of the left like a stirring mea culpa from a compatriot who is audacious enough to denounce Communism. What usually happens next is a highbrow equivalent of mud wrestling, as colleagues question the defector's motivation and fire off gratuitous insults. In the eye of the latest tempest, which blew up in response to the suppression of freedom in Poland, is Social Critic Susan Sontag (Styles of Radical Will, On Photography), whose past essays have sung the praises of revolutionary movements from Havana to Hanoi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeing Red | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...high interest rates--are just now beginning to hit home. Stockman's remarks may have embarassed himself and the president: in that sense, they mark a turning point in the history of an administration. But to the people who have to live with what he's done, Stockman's mea culpas sound as if he's merely trying to rub it in. In that sense, they may well mark a turning point in the way the public perceives not only Ronald Reagan, but politics and politicians as a whole...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: Loose Lips and Their Legacy | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

Shortly after the government called for new elections, the traditionalists won approval of a law sharply restricting the performance of transplants and of autopsies, which, the Orthodox believe, desecrate the dead. On the day after the passage of the autopsy bill, ultra-Orthodox students from Jerusalem's Mea Shea'arim quarter raided a medical school and forcibly halted an autopsy, heavily damaging medical equipment. When the attackers were arrested, their supporters in Mea Shea'arim went on a rampage, burning garbage cans, breaking water mains and assaulting city employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Troubled Land of Zion | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

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