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...Democratic-controlled legislature passed the bill, but not before attaching amendments that threaten to wreck the Republican Governor's plan. One amendment extends the compulsory 15% rate cut to all sectors of auto insurance, including collision, fire and theft, without any change in the coverage to justify the reduction. Another forces insurers, with few exceptions, to guarantee lifetime renewal of liability policies. Says Sargent's legislative assistant, Christopher Armstrong: "I can be convicted of manslaughter, be caught speeding ten times in one year, get in seven serious accidents resulting in claims of $125,000, and the company still...
...spirit of conciliation that they will not wish to endanger their good and profitable relations with Russia by flirting with China. In Peking, the Chinese appear fearful that the Soviet success in sealing the status quo in Europe will give Russia a free hand in the East to threaten China and undermine Chinese influence in Asia...
Washington hopes to rely on persuasion, but if that fails, the U.S. might theoretically resort to pressure. One means would be to threaten a cutback in military aid, including replacements for lost Israeli Phantom jets. Another would be to hold down on economic aid, though it is now running at only $55 million a year. A third, highly risky in a U.S. election year, would be a threat to tax the heavy contributions sent to Israel by the U.S. Jewish community (1969 estimate: $250 million). Such moves would drive a wedge between Israel and the U.S., its firmest ally...
Convictions of Righteousness. The auto talks threaten to take on a special bitterness because in 1970, more than ever, both sides are convinced that they are in the right. Industry leaders correctly contend that hourly wage increases in the auto plants have been far outrunning gains in productivity. They sense that this is the year to take the union to the mat and gain more control over labor costs, quality control and discipline on the production lines-even if it takes a long strike. They feel that public worry about inflation and the Nixon Administration's pledge to keep...
...camping. Last week, from Maryland and Virginia's Assateague Island to California's Yosemite Valley, the national parks were in something like a state of siege-and they were still a month away from the season peak. Unhappily. Americans in their massive, neo-Thoreauvian urge threaten to create precisely the environment they are trying to escape. A haven like Yosemite, once celebrated by naturalists and the National Geographic, offers roughly the solitude of Central Park on a weekday. Says one Interior Department official: "Visiting Glacier National Park is like going to a Safeway parking...