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...With the proper government encouragement, solar energy and conservation could "provide" two-thirds of the United States' increased energy demands in the late-1980s. Without such a program, the Department of Energy estimates oil imports could increase by as much as half. Clearly, the Energy Project's recommendations deserve a fair chance in the current energy debate and in Washington. As this book shows, not all good ideas come from California. Some come from just across the Charles...
...next day, in Moscow, Byrd talked for 2½ hours with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who made it plain that if the Senate amended the text proper, the whole treaty would be reopened. Byrd paraphrased Gromyko's explanation...
...chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, declared last week: "That such settlements are legal is not only my view but the consensus in the American Jewish community." Despite this admonition, many of those who signed the letter remained convinced that their criticism was a proper way to dissuade Begin's government from a policy that they felt was not only tactically wrong but morally insupportable...
Last week Schlesinger hastened to make amends, and succeeded in getting still more deeply mired. He conceded that the dispute over the proper balance between crude stocks and refinery runs is a legitimate difference of opinion, and he softened the threat to take crude away from refiners who do not use it rapidly enough. His reason: if he did that, the refiners might retaliate by importing less oil. Startled reporters asked if the Government was yielding to oil-company blackmail. No, no, said Schlesinger, no company had made any such threat; he was merely worried that he has no authority...
This handsome collection of works old and new is a proper retrospective for a writer who has become, in the past 25 years, one of the most accessible of all living .U.S. poets. Her works have appeared nearly everywhere, from the quarterlies and The New Yorker to the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune Magazine. Such popularity does not come free. At her least strenuous, Swenson picks up quotidian chatter and reproduces...