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Despite the President's good intentions, it soon became evident that, although the administration had listed hospital cost containment as one of its five top legislative priorities, it has taken a back seat to the energy issue and the Panama Canal treaty. The President realized that Congress could deal with only so much legislation at a time. So his letters to key congressmen urging them with his blessing to enact health cost control legislation were in vain. It has since become obvious that the administration's hospital cost control bill will not become law this year...
...back to New York from the Panama Canal Zone, Nation Associate Editor Edwin Warner stopped in Houston to attend the National Women's Conference. "I had just been exposed to the clash of ideologies over the Panama Canal Treaty," he explains, "and I thought that the controversy in Houston might be even more exhilarating. I also thought that men would be in some disfavor in Houston that weekend, but I decided to go anyway." Warner, who wrote a major portion of our cover story this week on the state of the women's movement, did not run into...
...nimble Senate minority leader from Tennessee, marshaled the Senate forces that killed Carter's bill for federal financing of congressional campaigns and helped write the G.O.P. alternatives to the Administration's energy-and economic-stimulus programs. He has not taken a position on the new Panama Canal treaty; if he backs it, he risks losing support from conservatives. Indeed, the treaty question is symptomatic of his more general problem. Explains a Republican Party official: "Baker has to make his bed and lie in it. He's either got to become a Reagan conservative, which on his voting...
...positions that span a bit beyond the predictable right. This year Dole has made 160 speeches outside Washington and has churned out dozens of statements twitting the Administration; last week he denounced moves for closer ties between the U.S. and Cuba. Sensing an opportunity to one-up Baker on Panama, Dole may try to lead the antitreaty forces in the Senate...
...German Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Willy Brandt. As old friends Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy and Robert Anderson, chairman of the institute, listened, McCloy insisted modestly that his career has been marked "more by its length than its height." He is in fact still busy, helping push the Panama Canal treaty through Congress. "It's been a fascinating life," he mused. Yet he has no plans to write an autobiography. Why? "If I could distill out of my recollections some pearly bits of wisdom, I'd go to work on them," he says. "But so far, that...