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Many Democrats found that argument persuasive, and the House voted 246 to 124 to require the Pike committee to delete the disputed material before formally issuing its report. The rebuke came too late, since the sensitive information has already been disclosed. The dispute will probably prompt Congress to adopt tougher standards on secrecy than might otherwise have been the case. For example, Tennessee Republican Senator William Brock has sponsored legislation that would punish congressional staff members with fines of up to $100,000 and jail terms of up to 20 years for leaking secret information...
...longer-run problem in cleaning up auto exhaust is that with present equipment the carmakers cannot meet the tougher standards that will be required under present rules by 1978. Automakers get the vast majority of their cars past muster now by attaching catalytic converters that remove pollutants from exhaust after it leaves the engine but before it blows out of the tailpipe (see diagram). In order to get as much nitrogen oxide out of the exhaust as they must by 1978, however, the carmakers will have to resort to lower combustion temperatures, reduced compression ratios and other engine modifications. Those...
Explains Refugio López Ortega, 45, who earns $3.40 a day as a laborer: "It is tough living in the city but tougher living in the country. I left a little farm in the state of Michoacan in 1942, and I would not return there for anything. I never went to school. Here my children go to school." Ortega and his family of eight live in a single-room jacale at "La Cuchilla" (The Knife), a squatters' community on a ledge high above El Trotche. His food bill is $4 a day, and he must somehow find money...
...lavish $6.5 million building with earphones dangling from the ceiling in language labs, an electric kiln for would-be potters and an enthusiastic and well-educated corps of teachers (40% have master's degrees). Its football team even produced a winning season this fall, despite moving into a tougher league...
Reform may also influence the thinking of the U.S. Congress, which is now considering a $60 million Zaïre aid bill. An additional Administration request for $19 million in arms aid, however, faces tougher going. Congress is afraid that such aid to Zaïre will get the U.S. involved in Angola, where the Soviet-aligned M.P.L.A. regime in Luanda is fighting an F.N.L.A.-UNITA coalition backed by Zaïre, Zambia, South Africa, several Western powers and China...