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Stiff Price. The deal brought an angry response from Congressman Henry Reuss, chairman of the Joint Congressional Subcommittee on International Exchange and Payments. He said that the U.S. "would pay a stiff price for any compromise with South Africa." A floor under the private price of gold, he argued, would encourage speculation by taking the risk out of it, and would possibly tempt foreign bankers to demand conversion of their dollar reserves into gold...
Eutrophication is partly a natural process, but man's contribution is accelerating it out of control. Congressman Henry Reuss, a Wisconsin Democrat, singles out one offender. At last week's hearings of the House Subcommittee on Conservation and Natural Resources, he charged that the $1.2 billion detergent industry is largely responsible for the damage...
About five billion pounds of detergents are now being used annually, said Reuss. On the average, each pound contains about 40% phosphate, which does a fine job of cleaning dishes and clothes. But once flushed down the drain, it begins its environmental dirty work. Reuss has introduced a bill that would ban the manufacture and importation of detergents containing phosphate after June...
What the hearings mainly proved was that U.S. industry too often fails to foresee how its wonder products may affect all nature. Does this process have to continue? Last week the Reuss committee heard one answer from a Swedish pollution expert who described legislation being considered by his government to restrict all chemicals that might contaminate the environment. Officials of the U.S. Department of the Interior are now considering a similar plan...
...planned State Department reorganization eliminating his 17-man bureau. Actually, it was no secret that certain department officials had vigorously opposed Schwartz, particularly on his liberal visa policy for foreigners visiting the U.S. To the Administration's discomfiture, Democrats Robert Kennedy in the Senate and Henry S. Reuss in the House both called for public hearings, which promise more obstreperousness...