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...conservation policy with teeth that would decrease imports and slow down depletion of domestic supplies. Alongside it should come a program - funded in part by energy taxes aimed at inducing conservation - to exploit domestic potential to the fullest. To guard against a future embargo, the Government could pur chase a stock pile of oil, with producers submitting sealed bids; that just might stimulate some producing nations to undercut OPEC's prices. The U.S. nonpolicy on energy and congressional inaction are both dangerous and scandalous...
...evidence the photographer offered for this part of his theory was a mutual friend so in love he'd pur...
East-West detente is still a primary pur suit. Among the items on the agenda of detente are a Strategic Arms Limitation agreement, to be negotiated at a meeting between President Ford and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev later this year, and a summit in Helsinki next summer, winding up Brezhnev's cherished project of a European Security Conference...
...also to be the big coonskin in what President Ford claimed recently would be a major campaign to "zero in on more effective enforcement" of the antitrust laws. Long before the surprise suit is resolved, it is likely to raise serious doubts about just what is the pur pose and direction of the Ford antitrust policy. Inevitably, there was speculation that the suit was politically motivated -the Administration's attempt to show that Big Business was by no means exempt from the sacrifices called for by its anti-inflation drive...
...next day, Sandman, at least, saw little benefit in pur suing the fight over specificity. "The argument was exhausted yesterday," he conceded to the committee, then withdrew his other eight motions to strike portions of the article under consideration. But now, having been harassed for their failure to detail each general complaint against Nixon, the Democrats were more than ready. They turned the tables, introducing motions to strike paragraphs as a means of debating the facts behind each charge...