Word: repeals
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Carter faced serious difficulties over his efforts to get Congress to lift the three-year-old embargo on sales of weapons to NATO ally Turkey. He considers repeal essential to strengthen the Atlantic Alliance; his opponents on the issue are led by the small but well-organized Greek lobby, still outraged by Turkey's 1974 invasion of Cyprus. Last week the House International Relations Committee backed Carter's position by a single vote...
...both development and implementation. Tax incentives and direct loans for solar installations should be augmented and distributed promptly--1375 Massachusetts homeowners have waited for more than a year for $400 solar hot water heating grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Citizens should encourages Congress to repeal legislation that encourages fossil fuel consumption--such as that establishing federal highway funds--and urge legislatures and councils to modify those institutional arrangements--such as outmoded utility rate structures and building codes--that hinder the application of solar energy technology...
...Repeal Inflationary Special-Interest Laws. The Jones Act, which requires all goods moving between U.S. ports to travel aboard high-cost U.S. ships, has many inflationary consequences, including raising the price of Alaskan oil shipped to the West and Gulf Coasts. The Davis-Bacon Act, a relic of the Depression, swells construction costs by requiring, in effect, that union wages must be paid on all federally aided projects...
...perhaps the most easily abused sections in the Criminal Code, are left untouched. S.1437 is plagued with such potential disasters." Yes, and the bill does not make other changes that he and I and other liberals would like. But it makes some reforms long desired by liberals, such as repeal of the Smith Act, and as far as I know it includes no retrogressive changes in existing...
...reservation with which the UFW reps seem to be treating the repeal is sadly defeating of the boycott's purpose. To be blunt, the less regard they will have for the effectiveness of the boycott as a legitimate expression of solidarity with UFW goals. This does not mean that the UFW supporter has to forego buying toothpaste or spring term books in favor of Gallo wine. Nor does it mean that one must prefer Gallo products over the previously non-boycotted products if the latter are less expensive or more desirable. But those among us who have in the past...