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...cost of living. Such figures were hardly a surprise to negotiators at the steel talks. Steel management has recognized that the U.S.W. will hardly agree to anything less than the 31% wage and benefit hikes that it won in the aluminum and can contracts negotiated earlier this year. A tougher question is how much of the increase will be "front loaded" in the first year and how much will be spread over the life of the contract. Officials of the Government, steel management and the union believe that there will be either no strike or merely a short walkout that...
...reported Viet Nam to his taste in the past; others were chosen "rather arbitrarily." He picked the Christian Science Monitor and the Detroit Free Press "because my father reads them." From the inside of government, Ellsberg added, it seemed easy to control news; he wanted newspapers to be tougher to deal with. "I think they will be in the future," he said...
...Laws. Largely through the efforts of Wild Horse Annie, new and tougher laws are now before Congress. The Senate passed its version last week; the House version is still in committee. Both bills would give full responsibility for protecting and managing wild horses to the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, and would prohibit the killing of mustangs except by trained Government agents-and then only when the number of horses becomes excessive. Violators would be subject to fines of up to $2,000, one year in jail, or both. The bills would make wild horses...
...past, such a cavalier attitude would have been met with helpless resentment, since Florida officials lacked adequate means to control environmental abuses. Now, with tougher laws on the books, environmentalists are aiming their fire at reckless land developers...
...difficult for conservation groups to argue with us," says Young proudly, "because in some cases our environmental standards are tougher than theirs." He may be right, but in one area he has run squarely into Florida's newly awakened environmentalists. The resulting showdown could affect the entire course of Florida development...