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Some of the FTC's recent actions, such as permitting lawyers to advertise despite the American Bar Association's restrictions and forbidding companies like Levi Strauss or Florsheim from setting minimum retail prices on their products, have benefited consumers. But the agency's excesses endanger its important consumer protection work. Says Republican David A. Clanton, one of the five FTC commissioners: "The trouble with the pendulum swinging the other way is that you knock out all the good stuff as well as chastising us where we need to be chastised." But when the final votes are taken...
Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev, who presided, later explains in his elegant headquarters residence that the surviving 4,000 churches are "more or less enough," despite the overflow visible at the cathedral. Parish priests, he adds, get a minimum of 150 rubles ($225) a month, often more, and usually a free, furnished apartment, sufficient to enable them to get by comfortably in the Soviet Union...
...impasse (there were naval exercises in the Persian Gulf last week, however), it might change its mind in the event of American casualties at the embassy. The Pentagon has advised that air raids, launched from carriers, could put the Iranian oilfields out of action for six months with a minimum of civilian injuries, but there has been no suggestion from any quarter that this would be a good course to follow. The resulting oil shortage would hurt U.S. allies more than it would hurt Iran?and would drive world oil prices through the roof. Another possibility would be a Government...
...House bill improves on the present system by requiring every state after Oct. 1, 1981 to provide welfare for two-parent families without income 65 per cent of the Census Bureau's official minimum subsistence level. That amounts to about $4650 a year for a family of four in 1979 dollars. The new rule would raise the payments to about 800,000 families in 13 states, mainly in the South and Southwest. Under present welfare rules, only single-parent families with dependent children receive aid, a system that encourages the break-up of marriages, some experts say. The House bill...
...enough, it is at least a small step toward a complete overhaul of the welfare system toward the establishment of national standards for aiding the poor. We urge Long and the rest of the Senate, therefore, to reduce the inequalities of our current welfare system by passing the guaranteed minimum income bill...