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...filibuster was the latest in a long string of indignities for Carter at the hands of a newly willful Congress. Younger and better educated than ever, legislators of both chambers have been roughing up Carter's appointees and rewriting his legislative packages. Four of the nine major parts of his energy program have been rejected at least temporarily, and most of the rest face trouble in the Senate...
Last week's understanding was a welcome development for the Carter Administration, which had been trying for nine months to get SALT back on track. The long impasse, in part, was the result of the President's inexperience in dealing with the Soviets. He put the Kremlin on the defensive with his evangelistic human rights campaign and his unexpectedly sweeping proposals for arms cuts, which Vance carried to Moscow in March. Since Carter's concepts would have required the Russians to give up existing (albeit aging) systems while the U.S. merely sacrificed weapons on the drawing board...
...conduit for SALT proposals, they balked.) But even on the back-channel there was little hard bargaining until the recent talks with Gromyko. Though both sides made compromises, Moscow seemed to bend the most. The U.S. had already dribbled out many of its concessions during the past nine months...
...common program (TIME, Sept. 26). Ostensibly, the issue in dispute was the number of private firms to be nationalized if the leftist alliance comes to power next March. When the program was first hammered out in 1972, the parties had agreed that there should be government ownership of nine major industrial groups; the question of how many of their subsidiaries should also be nationalized was left deliberately vague. In the recent talks, the Communists demanded the takeover of 729 companies, while the Socialists insisted that no more than 227 be nationalized. The impasse on numbers reflected a serious ideological...
Vellucci finished seventh in a race for the nine council seats...