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Before yesterday's board meeting, an official of the drivers' union, Teamsters Local 496, predicted "drastic action" from the cabbies if the board refused to overturn the gas charge. "That would mean a strike," Peter Lowber, a spokesman for the drivers, said...
Cambridge Licensing Board officials refused to overturn the owner's gas policy at a hearing yesterday afternoon. Licensing Board officials called the dispute an "employer-employee" problem and suggested that contract negotiations between the company and the drivers discuss the issue...
...Clean Air Act, that now delay refineries, pipelines and other energy projects. The board would have the power to make some decisions for federal, state or local agencies that were delaying needed developments. The House-passed bill goes further than Carter proposed and gives the board power even to overturn federal laws, although state and local ones remain outside its domain, Arizona Democrat Morris Udall and other Capitol Hill environmentalists feared that the new agency might repeal two decades of antipollution crusades. But a strong coalition demanding an end to energy delays resisted substantial weakening of the new body...
...good double for Who Guitarist Pete Townshend. Daniels also has two funny and touching sex scenes. When Jimmy masturbates solemnly at home and later makes inexperienced love to a prized "bird" (Leslie Ash), the film persuasively demonstrates that even the revolutions of the '60s did not overturn the crucial rituals of postadolescence. In those moments, Quadrophenia offers not only historical drama but also the kind of human drama that is timeless. -Frank Rich
...white crimes are no more than handslaps. No one, including black leaders, advocates a relaxation of standards for punishing violence--especially mob violence--for any group, but the law must be equitably enforced. Otherwise, there is no deterrent for would-be attackers, who will feel free to stone buses, overturn cars, and participate in attacks on innocent passersby like that on a Harvard student last week...