COMMENT
COMMENT Ridiculous In his last speech to the U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Andrew Young used exactly the right word to characterize his Government's refusal to recognize the existence of the...
...On July 16, an earthen dam gave way at a United Nuclear Corp...
...Available solar technologies could produce about one quarter of the nation's energy needs by 2000...
...The fight does go on...
...What the broadcasters seek is freedom to silence, not freedom to speak...
...Anyone who wanted a "station" (cable channel) could have one...
...There are limits to the number of commercials they can run per hour...
...uranium mine in the northwestern New Mexico desert, spilling 100 million gallons of radioactive water and 1,100 tons of radioactive metal sludge into the Rio Puerco, a tributary of the Colorado...
...But the decision was overturned at the annual convention in July...
...Now, two and a half years into his Administration, a new academic study has caught his eye...
...Just as in the case of Lockheed eight years ago, the Federal Government is rushing to grant welfare to the stockholders and corporate executives who would be hurt by the failure of a major corporation...
...Some of the company's plants could be used for production of buses and smaller vans (a line in which Chrysler has had some success...
...A genuine commitment to conservation and solar energy would meet stiff corporate resistance...
...As a result, Van Deerlin lost control of his subcommittee, and in July a majority voted to reject H.R...
...Nicholas Johnson (Nicholas Johnson, a member of the Federal Communications Commission from J 966 to 1973, now heads the National Citizens Communications Lobby in Washington, D. C.) Hatfield's contribution Senator Mark Hatfield, Oregon Republican, has introduced a simple amendment to the SALT II agreement which, if carried, would go a long way toward ending the arms race...
...While conceding that a realistic transition away from oil dependence requires conservation and solar development, it urges increased Government efforts to remove present technical obstacles to the expansion of existing light-water reactor use and to develop better forms of nuclear energy production...
...The measure lost, as expected, but the vote reflects a significant erosion of the regents' traditional and unquestioning support for the university's weapons connection...
...Those who seek to enter broadcasting without official Government sanction the "pirate radio stations" in New York and elsewhere, for example are threatened with fines and imprisonment in a Federal penitentiary...
...If Government loans are to be the instrument of Chrysler's relief, then surely public and worker groups are entitled to even more than the 30 per cent interest in the firm suggested by Douglas Frazer, president of the United Auto Workers...
...Paramount among those realities is the certainty that there will be no lasting peace in the Middle East without an equitable solution for the Palestinian people and that the PLO is, for better or worse, the voice of the Palestinian people in seeking that solution...
...Chrysler workers should not have to pay the price for Chrysler's mismanagement...
...Reluctance to introduce small cars even after the gas crisis of 1973 and drastic cuts in key engineering personnel under former Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend substantially weakened the company's competitive position...
...A first step in this process must be the unmasking of corporate strategies which obscure the fundamental issues...
...It is impossible to maintain a multimillion-dollar nuclear program while seriously developing a solar alternative...
...The July vote limits all future sources of overseas program funding to Guild revenues and foundations...
...Laurence N. Stern The headline across the top of The Washington Posfs front page on August 9 read, "Foreign Spy Activity Found Rampant in U.S...
...By the same token, however, it is not unreasonable for the Palestinians to insist that they must have an active and open part in any and all negotiations and discussions dealing with their national destiny...
...Even Exxon is in line...
...For seven years in the 1960s the Guild accepted about $1 million in what turned out to be secret CIA money to finance opposition to "radical" elements in Latin American newspaper unions...
...For the management, and for the President, that may ease the company's emergency, but for the American public it falls far short of an answer to the larger questions posed by the impending collapse of the giant automaker...
...The other detailed how the Shah of Iran had threatened to retaliate against CIA agents if Washington interfered with the illegal activities of Iranian agents in this country...
...The Council on Environmental Quality projects 135 new nuclear plants by the year 2000...
...another 300,000 workers depend on Chrysler for their jobs...
...It is a debate we hope will move beyond the narrow question of nationalizing the oil companies to a discussion of broader mechanisms for redistributing economic power in America...
...There would be no requirement for news or public affairs programming, public service announcements, or religious, agricultural, or children's programming...
...It is not unreasonable to expect the PLO to deliver such assurances in a public forum where it can be held accountable for them...
...Whose airwaves...
...The public's rights in broadcasting, like many other rights we take for granted, are under attack...
...The only effect of "deregulation" would be to give broadcasters even more power to censor others' freedom of speech...
...Now, instead of keeping their eyes on a single piece of legislation H.R...
...The Supreme Court has declared, in upholding the constitutionality of the "fairness doctrine," that the interests of the broadcast audience are paramount...
...But they are not unique...
...His bill was a measure to thrill broadcasters beyond their wildest dreams of avarice...
...Unlike the free market, such a solution would assure good use of skilled workers without the social costs of disrupting large communities...
...Improvements in the thermal efficiency of new buildings would cut their energy use by about 40 per cent, and more fuel-efficient automobiles combined with improvements in mass transit could save 40 per cent of the energy now used by transportation...
...The "equal time" rule would be substantially repealed, and so would the "fairness doctrine," which requires controversial programming, and some balance in its presentation...
...Predictably, that course has appeased no one and offended everyone...
...The mass media, which have highlighted the testimony on the SALT II treaty by Henry Kissinger, Paul Nitze, Alexander Haig, and the like, have virtually clamped an embargo on Hatfield's proposal...
...Furthermore, several Chrysler plants are in high-wage urban areas of the Midwest, while other, more profitable companies have been fleeing union strongholds for the South and overseas in quest of a more pliable labor force...
...Esther Schachter, supervisor of the study, offered this explanation: "Women's programs touch economic, political, and social issues that challenge many accepted policies and traditional lifestyles...
...It's just as important as finding another million barrels of oil a day," chairman Clifton Garvin said of his company's gadget, "but you can't conserve your way out of this thing and still meet your economic aspirations...
...They must present free "public service announcements...
...It is a risk against which we must be eternally vigilant...
...Chrysler's tin cup The ailing Chrysler Corporation, having lost its bid for a Federal bailout in the form of a massive tax refund, may have to settle for President Carter's offer to seek loan guarantees from Congress...
...He had been a reporter and editor at The Post for twenty-seven years...
...If the United States has a useful role to play in fashioning a peaceful settlement in the Middle East an arguable proposition in itself then that role is sure to pursue the policy outlined by Andy Young: to put pressure on the Palestinians and other militant Arabs in behalf of Israel's security, and to put pressure on the Israelis in behalf of Palestinian national aspirations...
...One can imagine ways in which something closer to a "marketplace" could be created in broadcasting...
...Or conventional, over-the-air stations could sell some or all of their time, giving anyone, whether commercial Hollywood producer or local community action group, access to the airwaves...
...Nevertheless, a good starting point has been found for a debate about the basic structure of the economy...
...That was also Larry Stern's working definition of journalism, and he always devoted his efforts to those who are not...
...In Federal employment programs, women have won recognition as an economically disadvantaged group deserving special training and assistance...
...The Administration's response follows a familiar pattern...
...Such a course is warranted neither by the Constitution nor by common sense...
...We came within a hair's breadth of losing our public rights in broadcasting this year with H.R...
...Instead, however, the Carter Administration seems to have opted for its usual expedient of muddled equivocation trying to appease the Arabs for the sake of oil, while trying to appease Israel for the sake of the influential American Jewish community that has been a traditional mainstay of the Democratic Party...
...Under the terms of H.R...
...But an Administration which has hitherto shown little concern for the victims of corporate mismanagement is unlikely to start doing so now...
...But Prime Minister Menachem Begin, himself a former terrorist, should be the first to recognize that history has a way of playing tricks on those who say "never...
...See "Newspaper Guild Guerrillas," by Jeffrey Stein, in the May 1979 issue...
...Joseph Bowring and Don Michak (Joseph Bowring is an energy economist in Washington, D. C. Don Michak is an antinuclear activist at the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, also in Washington...
...Last year, commenting in this space on the Camp David accords, we noted President Carter's statement that "it would be nice for us" if the PLO "would just go away," and we observed: "The PLO is not likely to oblige, nor is it incumbent on the Palestinian people to reconcile themselves to a settlement that is 'nice for us.' " That simple truth has apparently not yet dawned on the Carter Administration, though it was clearly perceived by Andy Young...
...3333, licenses would have been granted in perpetuity...
...Stone recalled that Aristotle defined politics as being "about the trouble between those who are favored by fortune and those who are not...
...But it didn't, and so, for most Americans, the disaster of Church Rock remains an untold story...
...This suggestion from the generally conservative labor leadership reflects growing public dissatisfaction with corporate control of the nation's energy production...
...At a deeply moving memorial service, Larry Stern's friend I.F...
...In asking whether nuclear weapons work has a place in the life of an academic community, the regents are raising the larger question of whether, in a free society, it has any place at all...
...Or operation could be limited to human beings, not corporations, with no more than one to a customer...
...To qualify for relicensing every three years, broadcasters must produce local programming, news, and public affairs...
...Such scenarios, appealing though they are to powerful economic interests, ignore the potential of solar power and the realities of energy efficiency...
...3333 citizens must anticipate an ambush behind every tree...
...Only six cents of every ten dollars from private foundations, which heavily influence the nation's social priorities, has gone to fund "activities specifically designed to help eliminate sex discrimination or to further opportunities for women...
...And he used exactly the right words to characterize the refusal of the PLO and all the Arab states but Egypt to recognize Israel's right to existence, peace, and security...
...The report asserts that "the various interest groups oil and gas producers, advocates of conservation and solar, even environmentalists and consumerists are secret allies, even though, to understate the matter, not all by any means would recognize it as true...
...Yet the Carter energy program and the emerging consensus for a "pragmatic" policy among energy planners obscure the basic conflict between these two energy scenarios...
...The effort has been led by Representative Lionel Van Deerlin, California Democrat, who chairs the communications subcommittee of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee...
...There is no way to know who is working on an amendment, what it may contain, or how anyone can go about countering it in time...
...The caucus suggested that the Guild could do more for international labor by persuading its locals to withdraw their pension funds from corporations which exploit Third World workers...
...While this vote represented a victory for the CPRB and other public interest forces, it was a narrow victory...
...Steps are at last being taken to eliminate sex discrimination in Social Security benefits...
...Like commercial investors, the foundations prefer programs promising quick results...
...At a historic meeting of the Board of Regents this summer, seven of twenty-two members voted to terminate the university's research contract with the U.S...
...Hybrid systems which combine solar collectors with conventional sources, thus avoiding storage problems, are now cost-competitive across the country...
...The report concedes that electricity generated by nuclear power can play only a limited role in replacing oil...
...The articles were exclusive, important, informative, clear, and concise and therefore many readers in Washington and elsewhere recognized them instantly (though they carried no byline) as the work of The Posfs assistant managing editor for national news, Laurence M. Stern...
...Over the past two years, the latest of these assaults has taken the form of a massive "rewrite" of the Communications Act...
...That agency permitted United Nuclear and other uranium mining companies to continue pumping radioactive water into the Rio Puerco because, as one agency official, Al Topp, put it, to do otherwise would be "like telling you to burn your house down...
...As Andy Young said, ridiculous...
...Conservation is possible without sacrifice...
...Now, however, the industry, the Carter Administration, and important segments of the academic community have come up with a new strategy to save the nuclear dream...
...It was the kind of candor that was bound, sooner or later, to cost Andy Young his job, though he has probably been the most effective U.S...
...During many of those years he was also a regular and frequent contributor to The Progressive...
...Archaic rape laws have undergone much-needed overhaul in thirty states...
...But when we look at Three Mile Island, every bank in the country is going to be re-evaluating its commitment to nuclear...
...Hatfield's amendment proposes to add to Article IX of the proposed treaty a single sentence that would limit strategic arms to their present number and commit each side "not to develop, test, or deploy strategic offensive arms of a type not deployed" previously...
...In holding his now-famous "secret" meeting with a PLO representative, Young may, indeed, have violated the official policy of the U.S...
...But the study also supports nuclear power as an important part of an energy supply strategy...
...This approach has support from some of the mainline public-interest advocates...
...Saving the nuclear dream The near disaster at Three Mile Island unnerved some of the biggest backers of nuclear power...
...But it remains to be seen whether the message has really been heard...
...Ridiculous," he said...
...Each of these steps would democratize the industry to some extent...
...spokesman at the United Nations since the founding of the world organization...
...This will be translated, as in the case of New York City, into strong Government pressure on Chrysler workers to accept a new settlement inferior to the levels in store for Ford and General Motors workers as a result of contract negotiations...
...It projects a doubling of nuclear output by the late 1980s, increasing the nuclear portion of total energy production from 3 to 4 per cent...
...In addition to signed articles and book reviews, he wrote, from 1964 through 1968, many of the items that appeared in the "Word from Washington" column above the signature "Potomacus...
...Word-of-mouth produced a unique assemblage of organizations representing labor, religion, women, blacks and other minorities, media reform and other groups, called the Coalition for Public Rights in Broadcasting (CPRB...
...After PLO chief Yasser Arafat met with west European leaders in July, the Christian Science Monitor reported that "analysts believe that Mr...
...The government of Israel insists, to be sure, that it will "never" negotiate with the terrorist PLO and that it will "never" countenance the existence of an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza...
...The Communications Act of 1934 directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to give radio and television stations limited, three-year licenses to serve "the public interest, convenience, and necessity...
...A "common carrier" cable system, with virtually unlimited channels, could provide the same ease of access for new radio and television stations that is now available for new telephone connections to the AT&T network...
...Both are among the authors of "No Nukes: Everyone's Guide to Nuclear Power, "published this year by South End Press in Boston...
...There is no question that a Chrysler bankruptcy, like a default by New York City, would cause hardship but not just to the executives and stockholders...
...Those rights have been expressed in a variety of ways over the years...
...Utilities actively oppose cogeneration and small-scale solar energy because decentralized power production cuts load growth and eliminates the need for new central power plants...
...But in 1976 Guild President Charles A. Perlik, who as secretary-treasurer had accepted the earlier CIA money, proposed that the union re-institute a Federally funded overseas program...
...I am unaware of any case in the entire history of the FCC in which a broadcaster's political speech has been restrained...
...And the President is talking about speeding construction of an additional seventy nuclear power plants...
...The President's policy of timid expediency stands in marked contrast to his rhetoric of "moral leadership...
...All these are signs of progress toward more equal treatment of the sexes in America...
...There are many other requirements...
...The public ownership taboo The Executive Council of the AFL-CIO says the United States should consider nationalizing the oil companies unless the industry begins to "serve the public interest more adequately...
...Arafat indicated readiness to recognize the state of Israel and stop all military operations against Israel in return for a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip areas...
...Write the CPRB, Box 19101, Washington, DC 20036, to find out what you can do about it...
...Chrysler employs about 150,000 directly...
...journalists in Latin America would be suspected of CIA spying...
...There is no way they can produce expensive, locally originated community programming, controversial documentaries, or innovative creativity in the arts...
...The logic of a truly free market leads inevitably toward monopoly...
...The mammoth oil company is attempting to acquire Reliance Electric to produce an energy-saving device...
...When the source and purpose of the funding were discovered in 1967, shocked Guild members voted to reject such contributions...
...With other groups, such as the Telecommunications Consumer Coalition, these organizations persuaded members of Congress that a political price would have to be paid for capitulating to the powerful broadcasting lobby...
...A commitment to an energy future based on solar power and conservation is not compatible with one based on nuclear power and the breeder reactor...
...And in the process, the Administration has exacerbated tensions in the Middle East and by firing Andy Young created dangerous new tensions between American blacks and Jews...
...They must deal with controversy and provide some opportunity for a range of views to be heard...
...We urge The Progressive's readers to send a letter or telegram of commendation to Senator Hatfield and a letter or telegram to Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urging that the amendment be approved...
...Industry could reduce its total energy use by about 30 per cent through cogeneration...
...Resources for the Future sees a minimum of 204 by that time and advocates-future development of the breeder reactor...
...Still, concerned citizens managed to organize against this power grab by a communications empire armed with the latest in electronic technology...
...They may not favor candidates for public office, but most provide an "equal opportunity" for reaching voters (sometimes called "equal time") to each contender...
...G. William Miller, the new Secretary of the Treasury, has called for sacrifices by "everyone" as a condition for a loan guarantee...
...They cannot just maximize profit by serving up the cheapest entertainment available...
...The broadcasters will never abandon their quest for the opportunity to be more fully irresponsible, to profit even more on public property, to curtail ever more effectively the public's access to the public's airwaves...
...In attempting to initiate a dialogue with the PLO, Young sought to elicit a public disavowal by the militant Palestinians of the goal they have long proclaimed the destruction of Israel...
...In and out of the oil industry, the ability of major corporations to control investments, shape markets, and channel the flow of information has enormous impact on energy supply and demand...
...Suspicious Guild members opposed acceptance of the grant because they feared that U.S...
...Deregulation" is in vogue right now, and some argue sincerely that broadcasting should be freed from FCC control and left to the competition of the "marketplace...
...Rather than bailing out management and stockholders, the Government should consider loans to workers and community groups for purchase and retooling of Chrysler's facilities...
...Government but he addressed the realities that Washington prefers to ignore...
...Security Council, Ambassador Andrew Young used exactly the right word to characterize his Government's refusal to recognize the existence of the Palestine Liberation Organization as a major political force in the Middle East...
...The private-enterprise system is no more capable of protecting our public interests in broadcasting than of guaranteeing our physical safety from exploding nuclear reactors and falling DC-10s, or our society's interests in preserving unspoiled wilderness...
...That is why, the more it becomes the subject of debate, the more the University of California contract begins to serve a useful purpose...
...Agency for International Development and an organization calling itself the American Institute for Free Labor Development, long known for its close ties to the CIA...
...And the FCC would be expressly forbidden to encourage equal employment opportunities for women and minorities at radio and television stations...
...3333 represented the first major overhaul of the communications law in half a century, its provisions received little coverage in the daily press, and virtually none on radio and television...
...It will take an aroused public and an expanded coalition of safe-energy activists to regain the power to make the nation's basic energy decisions...
...There is no way "marketplace forces" can produce an adequate democratic diet of news, public affairs, serious opinion, and education...
...Fairness" and "equal opportunity" are the only limitations, and broadcasters are trying to do away with those...
...Press reports that broadcasting "reform" was dead for the current Congress were misleading...
...We must convert to coal, use nuclear, develop synthetics, and do all the research in solar that anybody can think of...
...But, as a recent Ford Foundation study reminds us, the country still has a long way to go...
...The example would also serve as a setback for other governmental weapons labs that depend directly or indirectly on the academic community for the quality of their work...
...As the record of the Atomic Energy Commission makes clear, public agencies are just as capable as private corporations of withholding information vital to the health and safety of their workers...
...But under the present rules, broadcasters can censor off the air almost anything that does not suit their political or economic interests...
...The oil companies provide a spectacular example of corporate abuse...
...Government orders of mass-transit equipment to solve the nation's critical transportation problem could guarantee the viability of a new Chrysler enterprise just as military orders, which serve a dubious social purpose, add to the profitability of General Motors...
...Broadcasters already have as much freedom as anyone could have...
...And the Government of the United States, which vowed for years that it would "never" normalize relations with the People's Republic of China, should have learned long ago that nothing will be achieved by continuing to pretend that the PLO does not exist...
...So that there might be no misunderstanding among those whose ancestral home along the Rio Puerco the uranium company now shares, the words were repeated in Navajo...
...Holders of broadcast licenses are profiting from a monopoly created and protected by Government...
...Energy Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School proposes a strategy for preserving basic elements of the nuclear option and for reconciling opposing views on energy strategy...
...For the balance of this century," the Harvard study warns, "it would clearly be unwise to rely on nuclear energy to make any substantial contribution to the problem of reducing dependence on imported oil...
...But now, under the mounting pressure of public opinion, the tie is beginning to loosen...
...The Guild says noagain Once again, rank-and-file members of the Newspaper Guild (AFL-CIO) have reminded their leadership of the need for vigilance against political infiltration masquerading as governmental support for international trade union activities...
...Department of Energy when it expires in 1982...
...Though H.R...
...A recent Department of Energy report "exonerating" the oil companies for the present gasoline shortage relied on data provided by the industry itself...
...Solar power's contribution would increase from 3 to 7 per cent while conservation measures would provide the equivalent of 10 per cent of the energy use forecast under conventional assumptions...
...Clearly, this is one bastion of male power that remains unnoticed, untouched, and an appropriate target for inclusion in feminism's agenda...
...Faced with strong opposition at the convention, Perlik reluctantly acquiesced in the new policy, but he insisted that "it is incumbent on us to find the kind of financing that is acceptable to help people out there who could benefit from our help...
...3333 and to proceed with amendments to the 1934 Act...
...Ralph Nader and Thomas Murphy, chairman of General Motors, at odds on most other matters, say in this instance that the free market should be allowed to take its course, but there is no reason to be sanguine about that...
...United Nuclear which, with other uranium firms, expects to open seventy-five new mines and twenty new mills in that part of New Mexico over the next decade posted signs warning that children and livestock should be kept away from the river...
...Last October, the Guild's executive board voted to accept the grant...
...Only one station can operate on a given frequency at one time in one location...
...A "nationalization" scheme in which basic industrial information is similarly closed could easily continue to serve the same economic and political elites which benefit from the present system...
...Pragmatic" appears to be the key term for the emerging strategy...
...Chrysler's troubles have been intensifying for years...
...It must be remembered that academic institutions can also serve as a means of focusing public attention on Government weapons research...
...Nor does public ownership alone protect the interests of workers...
...Instead of a Presidential visit, an emergency proclamation by the governor, or a special meeting of the U.S...
...If public ownership is to serve workers in the energy industry, the workers themselves must push for its enactment and help shape the day-to-day decisions of publicly owned enterprises...
...Incident at Church Rock If it had happened on the Potomac, the Connecticut, or the Susquehanna, you'd have heard by now about the worst spill of contaminated water in the nation's history...
...3333...
...The river was contaminated for fifty miles downstream...
...Most oil in the United States is used for chemical feedstocks, transportation, and industrial process heat, where substitution is impossible or unlikely...
...But that may not necessarily end the Guild's subtle ties to government...
...Up until now," a Wall Street financier told Energy Daily last spring, "banks have been very friendly to the industry...
...What is the reason...
...Others speak of broadcasters as "public trustees...
...Some have said "the public owns the airwaves...
...Real relief will require a new grassroots movement willing to move beyond both the free market and socialism for the rich...
...A minority caucus likened the overseas program to the "activities of missionaries in that it selects new potential leaders for training and privilege rather than developing a broad program to help the masses...
...Also ridiculous," he said...
...On August 11, Larry Stern died of a heart attack, at the age of fifty...
...Under other proposals the number of stations could be radically increased by narrowing band width or reducing the power of each...
...Its market share has shrunk to about half of what it held in the mid-1960s...
...And it could open debate on a topic that has been too long taboo...
...Two stories appeared below the headline...
...Loss of the university contract would be a severe blow to the Los Alamos and Livermore laboratories, which depend heavily on their university connection to attract and hold able scientists and engineers...
...The present AFL-CIO leadership still has a long way to go in summoning the interest of its membership in such goals...
...Industrial users of energy do not invest in cogeneration because utility pricing policies permit them to pay less than the full replacement cost of the power they use...
...Aid to the present Chrysler management will be to no avail if the company pursues the conventional goal of a higher share of the current auto market...
...The nuclear weapons labs The central role of the American academic establishment in sustaining and heightening the arms race finds no clearer expression than in the long-standing arrangement under which the University of California has sponsored the Federal Government's two nuclear weapons laboratories...
...Chrysler is handicapped by shattered customer confidence, an aging physical plant, and stiffening competition from rival General Motors...
...Spurred by California's Governor Jerry Brown, who was in turn spurred by the UC Nuclear Weapons Labs Conversion Project and other peace and environmental activists in the San Francisco Bay area, the regents are at last beginning to reexamine the propriety of lending the university's name to such an enterprise...
...The Harvard study advances the thesis that conservation and solar development are entirely consistent with an expanding nuclear industry...
...There is no way they can guarantee fair employment for women and minorities...
...Purchase of all Chrysler facilities by a domestic or foreign automaker is unlikely because of the corporation's billion-dollar obligation in unfunded pension liabilities...
...Public ownership of the means of production can take many forms, from isolated and secretive bureaucracies to more decentralized structures to which workers and other community groups have full access...
...Instead of using solar power and conservation as a bridge to a breeder future, the phase-out of nuclear power should begin as alternatives are brought into production...
...The problem with applying the "marketplace" model to broadcasting is that there is no marketplace...
...But Chrysler's predicament does present an opportunity for more innovative solutions...
...Snatch that purse For the first time in history, eighteen- and nineteen-year-old women now outnumber men of the same age at American colleges and universities...
...Broadcasters have chafed under these restraints, and from time to time they have mounted an assault on Capitol Hill in pursuit of self-serving amendments to the Communications Act...
...One told how the intelligence services of five nations Iran, the Philippines, Taiwan, Chile, and Yugoslavia had conducted "systematic campaigns inside the United States to spy on, harass, and in some cases plan assassinations of their opponents...
...Their profits are outrageous, but so too are the profits of such major corporations as General Motors...
...This would require the completion of all nuclear plants scheduled to come on line in the next decade...
...When formulating his first energy plan, Carter is said to have relied extensively on a Ford Foundation report, Nuclear Power: Issues and Choices, which raised questions about the nation's total commitment to nuclear energy...
...The auto companies, opposed to the large expenditures and risks of retooling, have fought fuel-efficiency standards for years...
...At issue was a proposed $105,000 grant from the U.S...
...One foundation director said he sought a "viable, short-term plan, covering a year or so...
...The focus had merely shifted...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the victims got the help of the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Division...
...Equally noteworthy is the report's finding that, among private foundation trustees, men outnumber women six to one...
...The key to this "pragmatic" approach is its supposed accommodation of alternative strategies that are fundamentally in conflict...
...For some time now, Palestinian leaders have privately indicated that they are ready to come to terms with the Jewish state...
...There is no way they can protect the political interests of third parties...
...Even if Chrysler were purchased by another company, the net effect would be a lessening in the competitiveness of the industry...
...The Guild leaders, it seems, will bear continued watching...
Vol. 43 • October 1979 • No. 10
