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Unfortunately, the Democrats do not yet have any coherent energy strategy except opposition to Ford's ideas. Congress is likely to vote down Ford's taxes on domestic oil and his plan to decontrol prices. Several Democrats, including Tip O'Neill and Senators Henry Jackson of Washington and Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, also are opening a drive to suspend the President's authority to raise oil tariffs...
...Watergate is just the tip of the iceberg of America's language, according to Newman. In addition to all of its other implications, Watergate also "revealed the sad state of language,"from the president on down, through Ehrlichman and Haldeman,through Ron Ziegler, through the press with its acceptance of euphemistic explanations from government officials, through the political candidates with their sterile, ingratiating speeches, through the social scientists with their unwieldy terminology,through the ad men with their ready, mindless sales pitches, right down to the proffessional athletes with their trugid comments, to the small restaurants using foreign names...
...late American biblical scholar and archaeologist Nelson Glueck, the heaps seemed to be remnants of an ancient copper-smelting operation of pre-Roman origin. Now, after excavating at the site with a team of West German mining experts, Israeli Archaeologist Beno Rothenberg reports that the slag is only the tip of an archaeological treasure. A short distance away, he says, is the oldest underground mining system ever found...
Incredible Story. After an unsuccessful stint as Eugene McCarthy's press secretary in 1968, Hersh picked up a tip and traveled 30,000 miles around the country to track down 45 participants in the My Lai massacre. However, he failed to peddle the story to several national magazines because he was relatively unknown and the story seemed so incredible. Finally, David Obst, manager of the Dispatch News Service, a loose confederation of anti-Establishment freelancers, broke the story by selling it to 36 papers in the U.S. and abroad. In 1972 the New York Times, which had once turned...
Liberal rank-and-file Democrats in the House of Representatives had long been seething at the independence and aloofness of some of the chamber's committee chairmen. So too had House Speaker Carl Albert and Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill. With the election of 75 new Democratic Congressmen in November, the pressures for change mounted. But when they finally burst the restraints of tradition last week, the results were astonishing. For the House, that glacially sluggish institution, it amounted to a revolution...