Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studied the lives of all the top Russians, and so he thinks we ought to keep our weapons modern and have plenty of them. That idea keeps setting him apart from the others. To him it is simple. You seek peace, but stay strong. We need the SST, but we don't need to disrupt nature. "We can have quality of life and economic growth." The parlor liberals have forgotten that jobs are important, he insists. He studies a lot, squirreling away facts. "Some of these guys go up the hill and down the hill," he says. "They come...
Corner Grocer. But opposition to the bail-out plan is already forming in Congress, where approval is necessary before the money actually starts flowing. "I will do my best as a Senator to oppose this proposal," said William Proxmire, who figured heavily in the defeat of the SST. House Banking Committee Chairman Wright Patman, who helped defeat the Administration's initial loan proposal to save Penn Central from bankruptcy last year, also has his knife out. Others are opposed to the rescue plan unless, as Indiana's Vance Hartke says, "the corner grocer gets...
With the leaders of both parties in the House behind them, backers of a drive to restart the SST project won an initial test by 201 to 195 and naile it down by 201 to 197 on a second vo? Eight weeks ago they lost...
Needle's Eye. For all of Connally's efforts, however, the project cannot continue unless Congress agrees to underwrite $250 million in financing for Lockheed. That lobbying job may tax the Secretary's persuasive powers-as he knows, having argued unsuccessfully for the SST. This week Connally is expected to recommend to the Government a guaranteed loan to Lockheed...
Nixon had good reason to join the party. With the exception of his Administration's support for the abortive SST, the President has done his bit for ecoactivism over the past year. His Administration suspended potentially destructive projects like the Cross-Florida Barge Canal and deferred acting on the Alaska oil pipeline. It created the Environmental Protection Agency, an important new federal watchdog. It introduced 18 environmental bills in Congress, most of which deserve speedy passage...