Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon authority to ration gasoline. An odd political alliance-Democratic liberals, Republican conservatives and ardent environmentalists-voted decisively to send the bill back to a House-Senate conference committee. This week the conference committee will consider several possible revisions to the bill, including the substitution of a plan to roll back some domestic oil prices for its controversial provision to curb windfall profits...
Nixon Knew. Few members of the House have any illusions that they will be permitted to escape that momentous roll call in late spring or early summer. It is accepted as a virtual certainty that the Judiciary Committee will vote an impeachment. Indeed, House Minority Leader John Rhodes felt that he had no choice last week but to go to Nixon and flatly warn him of the worst. Says Rhodes: "I told him why it [the articles of impeachment] would be voted out. All you have to do is look at the numbers of Democrats on that committee...
...double chin gets out of control too easily (much to his distress) for him to look the part of a bona fide Secretary. Most important, he still relishes the simplified atmosphere of the White House, where he can hang up the gilded epaulets of the State Department, roll up his sleeves, and work in the air of pure power...
Underlying the occasional demagoguery in Congress was the serious issue of how, if at all, oil prices and profits should be further controlled. Jackson has proposed that Congress roll back uncontrolled prices of "new oil" from a recent high of $10 a bbl. to $7, and Federal Energy Chief William Simon said that his office would not oppose some price reductions. Congress is also considering several bills aimed at depriving oil companies of any "excess profits" that might result from rising prices...
...dust settle before the heads roll," counsels a Javanese proverb. For several days following the disastrous rioting in the streets of Jakarta that accompanied the visit of Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka (TIME, Jan. 28), the Indonesian government of General Suharto reacted hardly at all. Then, barely a week after the disturbances that had left eleven people dead, 807 automobiles gutted and 144 buildings damaged, the government retaliated. It shut down nine newspapers and arrested 775 persons, including 21 of Jakarta's most prominent intellectuals. The government's aim, declared one of the President's personal assistants, General...