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Pools. In Minnesota, where at least 113 independent stations have closed already, the state legislature has taken another tack. It is considering a bill that would force major oil companies to sell independents at least 10% of all gasoline brought into the state. In Washington, D.C., Darrell Trent, acting director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, suggests that commuters form car pools or take public transportation to work and that states reduce highway speed limits because cars consume less fuel at lower speeds...
What now? Bilateral talks between Panama and the U.S. will probably continue. But veto or no, Panamanians felt that they had got the better of the Yanquis. Said Foreign Minister Juan Tack jubilantly: "The U.S. vetoed the resolution, but the world vetoed...
California's Way. Chrysler President John Riccardo takes a different tack, insisting that the only immediate solution is to change the requirements of the Clean Air Act. He argues that California, the state with the worst auto pollution, has a more reasonable law, based on what he says are much more complete public health data than were available to Congress in 1970. It sets somewhat more lenient standards on pollutants (see chart) than those in the national...
...accusations of Yankee imperialism. It is the U.S. Congress, however, and not the U.N. Security Council, that holds the power over ratification of any new Canal treaty, and Congress is adamantly opposed to anything suggesting a giveaway. "The whole shooting match will go down the drain unless Torrijos and Tack [Juan Tack, Panama's foreign minister] stop acting like fire-breathing monsters," said an Administration official last week. "They've been taking courses from Castro, and sure as the sun rises the Congress will not brook that stuff...
...cheerfully taking tea and watching a parade of elephants while on her tour of Thailand last year. Suddenly, in a series of baffling photographs just published in London, Elizabeth registered first dismay, then pain, then a rictus of what looked like sheer agony. Was it that tea? A tack on the chair? Back trouble? Horst Ossinger, the German photographer who caught the moment with a telephoto lens, and won the Holland World Press Photo Contest prize for it, doesn't know. And the Queen isn't telling...