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Driving toward adjournment by mid-November, the 95th Congress last week was embroiled in the toughest struggle of its ten-month opening session. Contentious, unpredictable and highly independent of the new man in the White House, the lawmakers faced a politically unpleasant task: fashioning an energy bill designed to reduce the nation's dangerous dependence on imported oil?a piece of legislation likely to take money out of just about everybody's pocket. Their situation was aptly described by Indiana's John Brademas, the House Democratic whip: "It is tough enough with separation of powers and the absence of disciplined...
Saturday's events will include workshops on such topics as relationships between student governments and boards of trustees, women's athletics and women's studies, lasting from 10 a.m. to noon at the Hilles Library Conference rooms, followed by an ethnic dance session in Currier House at 2 p.m., Mary E. Stokes '78, treasurer at RUS, said yesterday...
...precedent for Cambridge taking Harvard's property by eminent domain. "I really don't want to raise people's hopes by saying I think the city will do this," she says. However, Graham is more hopeful about a proposal she herself is drafting for next year's legislative session that would give Cambridge residents home-rule on zoning and would require Harvard to consult with the city residents about future building. Graham says she would rather not discuss her proposal at this point, since it is still in the planning stages...
Hours after ordering the man hunt, Schmidt appeared before a special session of the Bundestag. He warned that "terrorism is by no means dead, neither in Germany nor anywhere else in the world." Earlier in the week, the Paris daily Figaro had headlined: THE LIFE OF EVERY NATION IS AT STAKE. If that was the case, Schmidt had shown that his government was prepared to fight for Germany's life...
...community. I think one of the major reasons for perhaps a lowering in the stock market values has been the increase of fluidity of the money supply and the increase in interest rates put on by the Federal Reserve Board. But I think that once we get through this session with an energy package that is adequate and once the tax-reform proposals are revealed, there will be restoration of some business confidence in myself...