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Last week a committee representing the Governors of states that tap the Ogallala published a list of 20 recommendations for action. Most of the suggestions, based on a $6 million federal study of the problem, involved stopgap efforts rather than cures. Except one. The committee wants further study of a proposal by the Army Corps of Engineers for huge canal systems that would import water from South Dakota, Missouri and Arkansas. The routes - all of which would be uphill - range in length from 376 miles to 1,135 miles. The cost- from $3.6 billion to $22.6 billion - currently places...
...Federal Reserve chairman, Paul Volcker, is a man to be much admired [March 8], for he is one of the few in Government willing to bear the responsibility for long-term economic recovery. Volcker realizes that stopgap increases in the money supply offer no solution. It took the U.S. 40 years to reach this dire economic situation. We cannot expect instant and painless recovery...
When it came time to vote the actual money, Congress would not give the President all the additional cuts he wanted. But after Reagan vetoed a stopgap resolution (theoretically shutting the Government down for a day) the legislators passed a bill that reduced spending by another $4 billion. They did so at the behest of Reagan lieutenants who conferred only with Republican leaders and did not so much negotiate as tell them what the President would and would not accept. Moreover, Congress gave Reagan power within broad limits to take that $4 billion out of whichever programs he chose, over...
...billion last July, Reagan in late September asked for more cuts. He urged Congress to trim an additional $13 billion when it actually got around to appropriating the money. But he never really made clear just which activities he wanted to slash. Congress, lacking guidance, passed a stopgap continuing resolution funding the Government from the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1 until Nov. 20, an arbitrarily chosen date, while wrangling inconclusively over the regular appropriations bills...
...priests at first took office as a stopgap measure in a time of crisis. But last December, with the crisis largely past and the Catholic hierarchy growing increasingly critical of the Sandinistas' repressive measures, the bishops asked them to leave their government posts. They stayed on, claiming the country still needed their services, so the bishops came up with a compromise plan. The priests could retain their jobs but downplay their roles as priests. If Rome approved, that...