Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from the comic-strip troops of Al Capp's Lower Slobbovia or the G.I.s who stumble through maneuvers at Camp Swampy with Beetle Bailey, the 70,000-man army of The Netherlands is probably the raunchiest-looking fighting force in the world. In startling contrast to the red-jacketed guardsmen who stand stiffly at attention outside Buckingham Palace, the honor guards in front of the royal palace on the Dam Square in Amsterdam usually have unkempt uniforms, straggly beards and lank shoulder-length hair. In fact, they look more like refugees from a rock group than members...
PRICE DECONTROL. The Administration will pair its request for excise taxes with a plan to strip away all controls on crude-oil and natural-gas prices. Thus the cost of old oil would float up from $5.25 per bbl. to the world market price, now about $11. Interstate natural gas, now controlled at 28? per 1,000 cu. ft., would be allowed to rise to uncontrolled levels of intrastate gas, now about $1.25. The resulting surge in oil-and gas-company profits would be cut by a special "windfall profits" tax; it would be channeled back to fuel users...
...most critical of Ford's vetoes was his rejection of a strip-mining bill that the House and Senate had been struggling with for the past two years before coming to an agreement on a compromise version last month. Designed to protect Western states from strip mining, the bill required coal companies to restore mined land to its original contours and use, thereby limiting surface mining to areas where such reclamation was possible. Moreover, the bill would have extracted fees from the coal companies (35? per ton for surface mining, 25? per ton for underground mining) to finance restoration...
Ford refused to sign the bill after arguing that it would have hampered domestic coal production "when the nation can ill afford significant losses from this critical energy source." Though his veto was anticipated, it is sure to be unpopular. The strip-mining bill was supported by environmentalists, Ford's own Interior Department, the AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers, United Auto Workers and farm and ranch organizations. It was even backed by a few big coal companies that were anxious to have some law-any law-enacted to clear up the uncertainty that has clouded their future...
...affect more than the American pocketbook. If land is going to be used more wisely-a top environmental priority-the landowner will have to give up some of his traditional freedom to decide what to do with his property. Similarly, citizens who want more energy must accept oil spills, strip mining and other environmental problems that even expensive technology cannot completely control. Ford writes that the environmental movement has "matured" enough to go along with these compromises. Whether that will prove to be the case depends in large part on the President's ability to steer the middle course...