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...Associated Press-NBC News survey found that only 13% of the public has esteem for the Legislative Branch. Last week the House-with some help from the President-gave a solid demonstration of why it rates so badly...
...which required that a record be made of how each member voted. Asked Republican Representative Gerald Solomon of New York: "Does anyone in the House believe that we collectively deserve a raise?" Many members obviously did from the earlier vote, but not enough were willing to say so in public; the raise was thumbed down twice...
Those revelations last week gave the flying public another case of jitters. For the second time in four months, mechanics were searching for tiny fatigue cracks in another McDonnell Douglas aircraft, this time the DC-9. Unlike the Federal Aviation Administration's hunt for engine-pylon-mount fractures that followed the crash of a DC-10 near Chicago's O'Hare field in May, the agency this time saw no need to ground the DC-9 fleet...
Besides logistical problems, officials in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington had to contend with lawsuits brought by civil libertarians, abortion advocates and atheists, including Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who won the Supreme Court ruling in 1963 that banned prayer from public schools. Opponents argued that public spending on the platforms constructed for the Pope's Masses, or even the use of public land, would violate the Constitution's separation of church and state. Complained Boston Plaintiff Bill Baird: "What do you think would happen if the Ayatullah Khomeini were coming to Boston Common to conduct a Muslim service...
Both Egypt and the U.S. issued sharp public criticisms of the Cabinet decision...