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With long, lordly wo-o-ofs, cheery B-flat chirps and an occasional deep commanding harrumph, the glistening silver serpent curls through a land its ancestors helped define. It may not inhabit the terrain much longer. Like the Furbish lousewort and the snail darter, the Southern Crescent is an endangered species. The aging Crescent is the nation's last lavish, privately run, long-haul passenger train. But its owner, the highly profitable and efficient Southern Railway System, claims to have lost $6.7 million last year on the Crescent's Washington-New Orleans...
...complain. Environmentalists were alarmed by violations of federal clean-air standards and a 1975 near disaster at Brown's Ferry nuclear power station in Alabama. Next, environmentalists sued to block the TVA from building the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River, which would wipe out the snail darter, a three-inch perch found only in those waters; that battle goes...
...consequences of dependence on foreign capital were illustrated in Britain when the International Monetary Fund imposed domestic policy changes as a pre-condition for making loans. The fact that the Quebec government has significantly watered down its labor legislation, and has moved at a snail's pace on the issue of nationalization of one of the province's biggest asbestos companies, already indicates the de facto importance to Quebec of foreign capital interests. Levesque's trips both to the Economic Club in New York, and to Harvard last week, are symptoms of an already compromised sovereignty...
...importance of last week's Geneva session in the 98-nation trade talks sponsored by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Started in Japan more than four years ago to lower international tariff walls, the so-called Tokyo Round talks have proceeded at a snail's pace-mostly as a result of U.S. preoccupation with Watergate, the Viet Nam pullout and the 1976 presidential elections. Last week the negotiations entered a new and decisive phase, when the U.S. followed Japan and the European Community in presenting its formal negotiating offer. Now that the Big Three have...
Business Lobbying. Griffin Bell has had three chances to observe the snail's-pace process: as a federal appeals judge, a highly paid corporate attorney and as Jimmy Carter's Attorney General. In speeches and in testimony last week to a Senate subcommittee, he advanced a bold idea: sending the biggest cases to Congress "as legislative matters" rather than taking them to court. "My idea," he said, "would be to certify to Congress that the case is beyond the capacity of the courts to handle." In an earlier speech before the American Bar Association, he described what sounds...