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...switch? Rising sticker prices and the phaseout of income-tax deductions of sales taxes and the interest on consumer car loans are major reasons. Says Bill Willis, fleet and leasing manager for Ford Motor's Ford Division: "Leasing permits people to drive upscale cars, complete with options, without making any initial investment...
President Aquino is believed to support a gradual phaseout of the vigilantes in favor of a citizens' army based on the Israeli model. Says she: "The challenge is to mobilize people in the defense of their communities but with all the safeguards that will prevent the abuse of this great power." The problem is that Alsa Masa and its counterparts have been effective in the battle against the Communists. Vigilante supporters say Aquino cannot afford to ignore their successes, whatever the long-term risks...
...Washington, a collection of consumer, environmental and scientific groups known as the Coalition of Environmental/Safe Energy Organizations called for a complete phaseout of nuclear power plants in the U.S. In Pennsylvania, protesters in Lancaster and Dauphin counties vowed to increase efforts to prevent the reopening of the reactor at Three Mile Island that was not involved in the 1979 accident there. In New Hampshire and on New York's Long Island, antinuclear forces stepped up their campaigns against licensing of the Seabrook and Shoreham plants, arguing that what happened north of Kiev could just as easily happen there. "The accident...
Stymied for more than six years because of objections from the Office of Management and Budget (which monitors agency regulations), the EPA's complicated phaseout will be analysed for a year before taking effect. Even then, it would not apply to any asbestos products already in place but would ban future sales of the material in roofing and flooring, tiles, cement and clothing. Other asbestos-related products would be labeled as such. Replacing asbestos with more expensive substitutes should cost consumers about $1.8 billion through the end of the century...
...Washington Post's top political reporter, David S. Broder: "Not the midpoint in the Reagan presidency but its phaseout. . . an accelerating retreat from Reaganism, a process in which he is more spectator than leader...