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TIME performed an essential public service with its article about the well-organized effort in Congress to weaken the standards of the Clean Air Act [March 1]. As the principal author of the law, I am delighted that interest in this issue is increasing. If anything, we need to expand the statute to cover new threats to our health and our environment-acid rain and airborne toxic pollutants...
...with certain right-wing governments in Latin America, including Argentina. Some of the money was earmarked for support of groups inside Nicaragua that are opposed to a Sandinista dictatorship. Both the House and Senate Intelligence committees were informed late last year of the Administration's covert plan to weaken Nicaragua...
Some U.S. and British analysts believe that in attacking Brezhnev, some Politburo members are only trying to weaken Chernenko, who is evidently positioning himself for the top job. Though many Western experts still consider Kirilenko, the senior member of the Politburo after Brezhnev, more likely to take over following Brezhnev's resignation or death, Kirilenko has been absent from recent state functions. But whether Kirilenko or Chernenko wins out, either one of the septuagenarians could end up serving only as a caretaker while such "younger" Politburo members as Viktor Grishin, 67, and Grigori Romanov, 59, vie for position...
...against the lingering inhibitions of Viet Nam, compounded by Watergate. Every new weapons system had to run a gauntlet of objections: it was unnecessary because we already had an "overkill" capability; it was dangerous because it would compel offsetting Soviet moves; it would jeopardize SALT negotiations; it would weaken us because it might preclude newer and even better weapons down the road. The attainable was being blocked by a quest for the ideal. The B70 bomber, the antiballistic missile, the Bl, the MX, the Trident II missile have all been canceled or delayed...
...message from lobbyists, witnesses and sympathetic congressional spokesmen was the same: that the massive cuts in educational funding Reagan has proposed will "mortgage the future" of the nation at a time when--according to the President's own analysis--the United States can ill afford to weaken its intellectual and technological base...