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...Chicago to Miami and was looking for housing of his own in Florida. "Like survivors of some shipwreck, we compared hard-luck stories and exorbitant prices. Buyers were eager to pour out their tales." Woodbury's assignment in the end proved a blessing. A source gave him a tip that led him to an apartment overlooking Biscayne Bay. Says Woodbury: "Ideal, and the price, $50 under my budget. I move in this weekend...
...Senate will pose some of the sternest tests for Carter. There his major projects are most in danger of sinking. In the House he can count on the support of Speaker Tip O'Neill. He has no such ally in the upper chamber. Not only is Byrd more aloof and elusive than O'Neill, but the Senate barons who control the important committees owe nothing to Carter, and in some cases are hostile. Where the President needs the most strength, he is the weakest. John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is 77 and too exhausted...
Carter scored a striking success in moving much of his energy program through the House under the guidance of Tip O'Neill. But in the Senate he faces opposition from Finance Chairman Russell Long, who claims there is no energy shortage. It is all there in the ground, Long argues-oil, shale, coal and gas-ready to be extracted if private industry is given incentives like price deregulation...
...main Arab population centers from Israel. Speaking last week at the tenth anniversary of the settlement of Merom Golan on the Golan Heights, Sharon elaborated on that theme, declaring that Israel should settle 2 million Jews in territories extending from the Golan to Sharm el Sheikh at the southern tip of Sinai over the next 20 years...
Jaworski, asked by House Speaker Tip O'Neill to take over the foundering Koreagate probe in July, remained confident that he could get the facts. O'Neill made it clear to Georgia's crusty John Flynt, chairman of the ethics committee, that neither he nor Jaworski would tolerate any obstructionism. "If Jack Flynt gets in our way, we'll go around him," said one investigator, "or maybe we'll just run right over him." At Jaworski's first appearance before the committee last week, Flynt and other committee members indicated that such tactics would...