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...purge of such anti-Administration Republicans as New York's Senator Charles Goodell. Already he is beginning to do a bit better with Congress: the Senate sustained his veto of a bill limiting television campaign spending, and last week a House-Senate conference restored most of the SST development funds that the Senate had earlier...
...salient mark of their effectiveness, and of Proxmire's own unrelenting exposition of anti-SST arguments in the Senate, is the fact that when the roll call came, 19 Senators who voted against Proxmire last year voted for him this time. Before the vote, Senator Edmund Muskie, long an environmental expert, spoke against the added funds and got Proxmire's thanks. Muskie responded with a grin and a clenched-fist gesture that seemed...
Unproven Argument. However, nothing worked last week for proponents of the SST. Their losing fight for the SST was based on economics and industrial patriotism, and it was waged by appropriate leaders: Democratic Senators Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson of Washington. The SST prototype is being built at the Boeing Co. in Seattle. Drastic layoffs at the firm have already produced an unemployment rate of 12.5% in the city, and an end to the SST project will inevitably mean an end of employment for some of the 4,800 now working on it. Aside from that localized effect, proponents have...
...even though the environmental fears are largely unproven, and much of the outcry may be unduly alarmist, the counterarguments were not strong enough to overcome the doubts. Only the ground-noise problem is generally conceded. Both the White House and Transportation Secretary John Volpe stressed continued support for the SST and its importance to the economy. Nixon called the Senate vote a "devastating mistake," and Volpe spoke of "future benefits to the national economy estimated at more than $50 billion." But both also acknowledged the power of the environmental arguments. Volpe pledged he would continue to support efforts to prevent...
...Congressman from Maryland. According to the scorecard kept by the League of Conservation Voters, Morton rates - 14 on a scale that goes from a perfect + 25 (Representative Henry S. Reuss of Wisconsin) to a miserable -25 (Representative Page Belcher of Oklahoma). Morton voted against highway beautification and for the SST, which environmentalists consider a disaster. Except for fostering the Assateague Island National Seashore, his attention to bills relating to wildernesses and national parks was spotty. He missed the roll call on proposals to preserve areas in San Rafael, Calif., Biscayne, Fla., and the Great Swamp...