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...respond with knee-jerk nervousness to almost any news about the dollar. Thus, last week, the latest word from Washington sent money speculators scurrying to the major exchanges. Cause of all the excitement was a report issued by the Congressional subcommittee on international exchange and payments. Committee Chairman Henry Reuss of Wisconsin and his colleagues suggested that the U.S. dollar should be devalued -preferably by an upward revision in the price of strong currencies like the West German Deutsche Mark. Short of that, they would settle for unilateral action on Washington's part...
...Reuss has voiced such recommendations repeatedly over the past few months and his report was quickly disavowed by the Nixon Administration, which has always refused even to consider devaluation. Even so, it convinced many money men that such a move might be secretly under consideration in Washington. Only two years ago, after all, President Georges Pompidou chose the depths of the August business doldrums to lower the value of the franc by 12½%. Now, profit-seekers rushed to the Continent's central banks to exchange their greenbacks for currencies that would presumably rise if the dollar were devalued...
While the House rejection of the SST was led by Yates, Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte and Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, the plane's most persistent and effective critic, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, loomed large. The stubborn Democrat (see box, page 13) has fought the plane from its inception; he kept feeding its House critics valuable information and staged a last-minute press conference to complain that the Administration was trying to gag one of the plane's scientific opponents: Dr. Gio Gori, of the National Cancer Institute who first agreed, but later refused, to testify about the potential...
...letter to Rep. Henry S. Reuss (D-Wis.), Kistiakowsky, a former adviser to President Eisenhower, said that the SST "could not be used by the majority of the people" in the United States. He added that the expense of tickets on the airplane and the inability of the SST to fly short distances mean that only the rich will be able...
Another worry is Morton's voting record on environmental matters as a four-term Congressman from Maryland. According to the scorecard kept by the League of Conservation Voters, Morton rates - 14 on a scale that goes from a perfect + 25 (Representative Henry S. Reuss of Wisconsin) to a miserable -25 (Representative Page Belcher of Oklahoma). Morton voted against highway beautification and for the SST, which environmentalists consider a disaster. Except for fostering the Assateague Island National Seashore, his attention to bills relating to wildernesses and national parks was spotty. He missed the roll call on proposals to preserve areas...