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Support in Congress is broad but shallow, while opposition from the bureaucracy is focused and intense. Congressional committees have made some major changes in the bill, which is expected to reach the House floor late this week. Republicans who backed the original proposal are now offended by a provision making...
Moreover, the study group recommended that Congress enact legislation suspending the equal opportunities provision of the Federal Communications Act, "requiring networks to release each week to their licensees twenty 30-second prime-time segments restricted for sale to political candidates during the campaign period," and permitting networks to deduct from...
Civil liberties advocates were particularly pleased by the requirement that officials balance the public interest with the needs of national security when considering a request for the release of classified information. The effect of this provision will be to make appeals easier. Said American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer Mark Lynch...
Under the terms of the Salisbury Agreement, the white electorate must vote in a referendum whether to accept that settlement. As a last-ditch maneuver, Smith could conceivably use this provision as an excuse to declare the March 3 agreement null and void and to restore himself as Rhodesia'...
The House has been chipping away relentlessly at Carter's package. Congressional pressure has forced him to reduce the size of the tax cut he proposed from $25 billion to $15 billion. Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee has scrapped one "reform" provision after another. Deductions have been...