Word: planned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trying to quiet the striking truckers, President Carter met with Senator Edward Kennedy last week at the White House to announce their joint sponsorship of a sweeping new plan to deregulate the trucking industry. The Government would stop regulating rates, freight and entry requirements, steps that the Administration estimates would save the public $5 billion a year in shipping costs. In a report sent to Congress, Carter attacked the present system, which puts the independents at a competitive disadvantage. "Collective rate making, commonly known as price fixing, is normally a felony," he wrote. "But the trucking industry has enjoyed...
...main elements of Carter's plan...
...programs are far more modest than we expected," said Denis Hayes, director of the Solar Lobby. Other solar lobbyists criticized the plan because funding is tied to the windfall profits tax, which has not been passed by Congress...
Yance further proposed that the OAS dispatch a peace-keeping force, which might include some J.S. troops, to restore order to the divided country. Vance's six-point plan also included a cessation of all arms shipments to both Somoza's forces and the rebels and a major international relief and reconstruction effort...
...plan was also attacked by other OAS members. Some feared that this might create a precedent for future intervention in their own affairs, along the lines of the 1965 Marine landing in the Dominican Republic...