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...with $700 for a coal-fired plant. The two main causes are general inflation and the long delays in getting a plant built because of legal challenges by opponents. Says Charles Cicchetti, chairman of the Wisconsin public service commission: "It's time to jump off the nuclear bandwagon." Nonetheless, the industry contends that nuclear plants now in operation deliver power at a lower cost than those fueled by almost any other means. The Edison Electric Institute, a utility-company group, estimates that atomic plants produce electricity at a cost...
...peacetime revival of the draft is bitterly opposed as an infringement of freedom by such groups as the antiwar Friends Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union. Nonetheless, there is a growing feeling on Capitol Hill that the all-volunteer force is a failure, as long argued by Senator John C. Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Bills before Congress range from requiring only registration to reinstituting the old-fashioned draft. There is even talk of making women register. One other proposal would set up a "national service" program that would allow draftees to go into uniform...
...rate psychiatrists want to work where the possibility of cures is so remote. Foreign psychiatrists, some of them unlicensed, have flocked to these institutions. Many, to be sure, do extremely competent work. Spanish-speaking doctors, for example, have been able to provide better levels of care for Hispanic patients. Nonetheless, the overall quality of these foreign doctors has raised a clamor for legislation by Congress that would stop the influx of poorly trained aliens. If it passes, the state institutions may be left with fewer psychiatrists of any kind. That could be calamitous; for even with these foreign-trained doctors...
Even if the hostility against Sadat's treaty does not reach that level of violence, the Arab opposition will nonetheless be serious. The radical Iraqi government announced last week that as soon as the treaty is signed, it will convene a conference of other Arab states and consider various economic sanctions against Egypt. These would include severing diplomatic, cultural and trade relations with Cairo, boycotting Egyptian products and re-evaluating ties to countries that remain friendly with Egypt. Saudi Arabia, which has been supporting Egypt with $2 billion a year, may cut back or even eliminate...
...Nonetheless, the French people show little confidence in Barre. The Premier got a 36% approval rating in a poll last week, a drop of 9% in the past year. Clearly, Barre's tough economic remedies will have to be carried out with more sensitivity and imagination if he is to avoid fulfilling a prophecy by Communist Leader Georges Marchais: The people, if not the parliament, will one day reject Barre's policies...