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It is, of course, the long frustration of the Viet Nam War more than any other factor that has fed the growing reaction against presidential power. Indeed, there has been an ironic turnabout by academics and liberals who once excoriated members of Congress as moss-backed obstructionists retarding the social...
Besides the increasingly hard line from Hickel's office, Congress last week approved, by a House vote of 358 to 0 (with 72 abstentions), a tough bill that would impose strong penalties on those responsible for oil pollution of U.S. territorial waters. The bill, which President Nixon quickly signed...
Led by U.S. Plywood-Champion Pa pers, Inc., the manufacturers formed their own mortgage-finance company and announced its intention to offer 10%-down-payment loans without Government backing to buyers of homes priced as high as $40,000 or occasionally more. "There's an overwhelming need for this...
Confusing the Stories. On the shop pers' level, the anti-stamp crusade has grown even more spirited. Last week, 100 women and children gathered in an Anaheim, Calif., stadium for a "stamp burning" and fed a bonfire with super market bingo tickets, game cards and trading-stamp books - though...
At The Hague last week, Finance Ministers and central bankers from ten nations paused during a two-day conference on international monetary problems for a banquet at Het Prinsenhof, the royal residence of William of Orange. Presiding as host, Dutch Finance Minister Anne Vondeling toasted his colleagues with an old...