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...which 15 powers, including Germany and Japan, agreed to renounce war as an instrument of national policy; and former United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who was named posthumously as lau reate in 1961, while his U.N. peace keeping force soldiered on in the bloody morass of the Belgian Congo...
Much of this paperwork morass can be avoided without compromising the safety or civil rights of anyone. The Administration's proposed nuclear licensing bill would allow the NRC to give final approval to plants that follow a standard, accepted design for construction on previously approved sites. In that way, it would eliminate some layers of review agencies and reduce the opportunities for opponents to reopen litigation on is sues that have already been legally resolved by courts. Unfortunately, there will be no action on this proposal before 1979. Legislation to place the licensing process in the hands of fewer...
...battle now lies in the Senate, which is expected to take up the bill late this week. Here, powerful opposition forces include Senator Long of gas-producing Louisiana, who argues that the Administration plan would "tie up producers and investors in a morass of endless paperwork, hearings, litigation and bureaucratic red tape...
When a 31-year-old manufacturing-company executive moved out of his rented home in Oregon, the landlady kept $125 of his $325 security deposit. That sort of thing happens often enough. When it does, tenants usually consider the morass of paper work and legal fees likely to result from bringing suit and glumly drop the whole thing. But this executive and his employer had each been contributing just over $1 per week to a group legal insurance plan, underwritten by Midwest Mutual Insurance Co. and sponsored by the Oregon State Bar Association. The tenant simply consulted...
Laborites will answer that Britain is returning to better economic times-and ask whether it will continue to do so under Tory rule. Thanks in large part to North Sea oil, and despite the unemployment problem, Britain has steadily climbed out of its economic morass of three years ago. Prime Minister Callaghan feels his government deserves the credit. One of his last acts before Parliament recessed was to secure endorsement of a 5% suggested national limit on wage increases. Previous Labor-inspired wage guidelines have been instrumental in reducing Britain's inflation rate to 7.5%, from...