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COMMENT The thermonuclear society To some it may always have been obvious, and others will continue to regard it as preposterous, but we can no longer sustain a reasonable doubt about a simple...
...the poison works its way into the ducks' bodies...
...signaled its determination to roll back Government standards for future gas economy...
...NRA spokesman John Adkins says that despite the Fish and Wildlife studies, "there's no proof spent lead is a major source of dead ducks____" NRA's strongest Senate backer is McClure, a conservative who works closely with the Senate Republican Whip, Stevens, who is also the ranking Republican on the Senate appropriations subcommittee handling Interior's budget...
...The three-year-old was reported as saying, "I'm going to shoot and I'm not going to miss...
...Winchester-Western and John Olin are satisfied, and so is the NRA, which won by funding legislation that it could not win in court...
...They are accompanied by unmistakable signs that the country is being positioned for nuclear war: Civil defense is being revived as a practical policy...
...Our readers may well wish to take a look...
...economy...
...Among its subsidiaries is Winchester-Western, the leading manufacturer of lead shotgun pellets...
...Other still-unrecognized regimes — Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia — offer a better test of America's readiness to remove the blinkers that long have blinded us to the successful struggles of oppressed people for freedom and economic justice...
...But our energy and auto conglomerates are still reaping substantial profits on the sales of large, gas-guzzling cars, and they are certain to exercise all the leverage at their disposal to fight even these modest requirements...
...The shot is soluble...
...so did Iowa, Ohio, and Washington...
...t The link between deterrence and global presence is neatly stated by Fred Ikle, consultant on national security affairs, in ,. a recent Fortune magazine article speculating on what might happen if the Soviet Union, undeterred by the United States, should move into such places as Yugoslavia and Pakistan: "Decisions in such contingencies would, of course, be influenced by many factors that are not now discernible, but r the case for [U.S.] intervention has clearly been made more difficult by the vast expansion of Soviet military power...
...But so long as we allow corporate interests to set our national priorities, our economy will, indeed, remain ever more vulnerable to "external forces," and "the Arabs" will have us over a barrel...
...Whatever his impulses may once have been, the President now seems trapped by the momentum that long ago captured others no less genuinely devoted to the cause of peace...
...The temptation, already evident in the mass media, will be to blame "the Arabs" and to treat our economic distress as a product of "external forces" beyond our control...
...Somebody must have been reading Hitler's Mein Kampf...
...Well, it is and it ain't, but mostly it ain't...
...But when economic downturns come — as they must — some airlines will find themselves overextended, confronted with the likelihood of failure or the pressure to merge...
...But the considerations that prompted the Carter Administration to establish, at long last, full diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China suggest we are still far from recognizing the underlying reality of that revolution...
...Even official Government estimates, which tend to understate the possible benefits of energy alternatives, concede that 20 per cent of all our energy could be derived from solar sources by the end of this century...
...But it would be a mistake to make too much of this long-overdue act...
...But nothing causes a shudder like the memories I have of secretly playing with the souvenir guns my uncle brought home from the war in Italy...
...It may soon be time for another generation to shout "Hell no...
...But simply because regulation has often been instigated by corporate capital to serve its own purposes, we cannot assume that deregulation will serve the public's...
...President Carter does not put it that way, but the evidence is plain enough — in his new budget, in his new military programs, in his proposed "arms limitation1' agreement with the Soviet Union, and in his final retreat from efforts to prevent nuclear war...
...The purpose, said the editors in the first issue, is to offer a continuing "citizen perspective" on a subject where corporate perspectives are all too commonplace...
...Kahn, who now directs President Carter's anti-inflation program, has announced he will be looking for more areas in which to foster deregulation and increased competition...
...But when it comes, it will be wunnerful...
...In the struggle for the hearts and minds of Africa and Latin America — and even Southeast Asia — China is now the protector of American interests...
...But there was another side to Paul Douglas — one that troubled many of his friends and admirers: He was a superpatriot of the my-country-right-or-wrong persuasion and, in his later years, an unreconstructed Cold Warrior...
...But the OPEC price increase exposes fundamental weaknesses in our economic system that would be amenable to both short-term and long-term remedies...
...Two years ago, when Carter entered the White House, there seemed grounds for hope that the powers of the Presidency might finally be directed against this country's unceasing preparations for nuclear war...
...And in Fairfax, Virginia, a twelve-year-old was shot dead by an eleven-year-old...
...Arizona, Mississippi, and Oklahoma did not respond...
...In September 1950, when the dust was still settling on the collapse of the old order, The Progressive called on America to face reality in China: "Our sins of omission add up to a more staggering total than our sins of commission...
...Now his mid-term programs testify to the futility of that hope...
...The handgun menace I often feel amazed that I passed through my childhood alive, for I can recall falling out of trees, swimming in unsafe waters, and plunging my bicycle into a speeding car...
...It concluded that soft iron pellets were suitable but damaged gun barrels...
...That movement is not yet in sight...
...Today's hawks and doves debate the means of implementing war, not the policy itself...
...The trouble with 'deregulation' "Politicians are getting the message," exults William F. Buckley's National Review: "Airlines have been deregulated...
...The jail is still full of people...
...They have a dandy new ordinance on the books down in St...
...That answer applies with even greater force to the monstrous danger posed by the nuclear arms race...
...So virtually any child can become the next target — your child or mine...
...A few giants will eventually earn larger profits — in part by charging higher fares and curtailing service to smaller and less profitable routes...
...The arguments advanced by some of the staunchest critics of the Pentagon often carry unconscious and unintended advocacy of the doctrines of nuclear war...
...In fact, if anything, crime could be on the rise...
...Mary Parish, Louisiana...
...And tattooing numbers on their wrists would probably help even more...
...The Pentagon is seldom at a loss to show how the endangered deterrent needs still more and more protection...
...Reviving the draft It would cost a mere "few million dollars" to revive the Selective Service system and resume registering and classifying potential draftees, says General David C. Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...The outcome has been chaos...
...For the most part it has W been justified in the name of deterrence — the pro-tection of the credibility of a deterrent which must be maintained to protect this country's position in the world...
...But it does shed some light on how things work in Washington...
...Because of changes they perceive in today's China, the promoters and defenders of the new Peking-Washington link regard it as just another way of accomplishing objectives that remain essentially unchanged...
...Little by little, the Pentagon and its Congressional boosters are building pressure to give the draft a new lease on life...
...And so, said a witness, "Jeffrey stood there for a moment with a big hole in his stomach, and blood all over the place...
...And Douglas was listed among those "whose arrest might be considered necessary" in time of war...
...But that could take a long time, and the ducks keep dying of lead poisoning...
...He was dead instantly...
...The new President spoke of reducing the military budget and working toward "zero nuclear weapons...
...Later studies put the total number of ducks dying yearly from ingesting lead at a minimum of two million...
...These weapons systems all are new, and they represent a qualitative escalation in the nuclear arms race...
...But each new step in the spiraling nuclear arms race, now driven to a faster pace by the inevitable narrowing of America's long early lead, brings a fresh reminder of the price the world pays for continuing acquiescence in the false assumptions underlying our national policy...
...A duck containing no lead pellets has two parts lead per million parts of its body (presumably from auto exhausts in the air...
...The FBI (cont'd) Of all the FBI transgressions against law and decency that have come to light in the last few years, none seems as bizarre and revolting as the fact that our national thought police spied on the late Senator Paul H. Douglas for more than two decades...
...There is a tendency in some quarters to discount these manifestations as "tough talk" designed to win Senate votes for ratification of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with the Soviet Union...
...Several major airlines are already vying to swallow National Airlines...
...Where are your papers...
...Congress is being asked for a massive underground silo network to give mobility to the intercontinental missile strike force and assure its survivability in a nuclear war...
...the nation once written off as an implacable foe is now looked to for leverage against another enemy...
...So Stevens last summer inserted a proviso in the Interior budget barring use Of any funds to carry out the Department's steel shot program...
...Abroad, our futile efforts to isolate China succeeded only in isolating the United States...
...Oregon applied the ban only to Federal wildlife refuges...
...Deregulation is no panacea for the airlines or for any other industry...
...Wallace Terry (Wallace Terry is a regular commentator on the CBS Radio "Spectrum" series...
...Present law, deemed unreasonable by Ford, would require U.S...
...The same week that OPEC announced its price increase, the Ford Motor Co...
...Few economic and social problems can be fully understood without attention to the role of these vast enterprises...
...and ain't it wunnerful...
...from shared perceptions (differing only in degree) of the role of America in the world, and from a simple unwillingness to pay the personal price of fundamental dissent...
...In the well-founded belief that the activities of these shadow governments bear closer scrutiny, Ralph Nader's Corporate Accountability Research Group has launched a publication to keep track of multinational corporations...
...Carefully drafted to suit the demands posed by the nuclear weapons establishments on both sides, it sets meaningless numerical limits and leaves the way wide open for qualitative improvements in the capacity to wage nuclear war...
...Still a better test would be our willingness to recognize and assist, in many other countries, the struggles that have yet to come to fruition...
...One such assumption is the necessity of nuclear "deterrence...
...It should not be...
...The merchandizing of bottled baby's milk by one such corporation debases the infant nutritional standards of the poorer countries...
...For the most part they fall under a single general heading — a belligerent, inflexible, totally negative approach to world affairs, one which largely rejects mediation, conciliation, and compromise in favor of overly legalistic forms, face-saving, and an unwillingness to understand and harness for constructive purposes the revolutionary ferment agitating much of the world in which we live...
...The military budget is again to be increased by about 10 per cent, as it was last year, and the nuclear weapons stockpile is on the verge of unprecedented expansion and modernization...
...In opposing one nuclear weapon, Proxmire lends support to another: By unmistakable implication he sanctions the notion that the nuclear deterrent is something worth safeguarding...
...Acquiescence in these assumptions has vitiated the peace movement from the start and helped fashion the SALT agreements into instruments of surrender to the military...
...Our country now imports 50 per cent of its oil, and expends 40 per cent of all its energy resources on transportation...
...the ban was to be extended in 1977 to the Mississippi flyway, the route half the ninety million migrating ducks, geese, and swans take yearly...
...The neutron bomb will be produced and stockpiled for battlefield use...
...Knowledgeable sources in Washington predict Selective Service will be back in business by 1980...
...The plan was to bar lead shot in the nine most heavily hunted counties on the Atlantic flyway — the route eastern waterfowl take to and from Canada each spring and fall — in 1976...
...The Olin Corporation is a giant conglomerate...
...In recent years, I can recall a thirteen-year-old in College Park, Maryland, who accidentally killed his best friend with a pistol he found in his home...
...But the Fish and Wildlife Service reckoned without John Olin, honorary board chairman of the Olin Corporation, and two Republican Senators, Ted Stevens of Alaska and James A. McClure of Idaho...
...Arms Control and Disarmament Agency...
...power along the periphery of the Soviet Union should come as no revelation, but the authorship of the article tells much about the orientation of those who regard themselves as the "loyal opposition" to the nuclear arms race...
...In the mid-1960s, the Sporting Arms and Manufacturers Institute spent $100,000 looking for a lead shot substitute...
...fc That nuclear weapons are a means of projecting U.S...
...The waterfowl, says Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Robert I. Smith, forage for hard seeds — wheat, corn, rice — on the flyways and mistake lead shot for the seeds...
...Every community in the country ought to have a gun-control law that requires handguns to be registered and kept unloaded, disassembled, or trigger-locked...
...Rich and poor alike bear the brunt of dealings by multinationals in nuclear reactors, war weapons, and other items posing the gravest consequences for the world we all share...
...Five critical states equivocated: California agreed to prohibit lead shot in only one Federal wildlife refuge...
...Third-generation submarine-launched missiles are going into full production...
...The father of one of these victims said he did not keep guns in his home because children were present...
...Over a barrel The 14.5 per cent increase in the price of crude oil to be imposed this year by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will deal a new blow to the fragile and irrational U.S...
...As National Review notes, interstate trucking is likely to be next...
...The Chinese footnote It was inevitable that the United States would eventually come to terms with the government that came to power a generation ago in the world's most populous nation...
...Mary to show an official identification card that is issued only after the applicant's fingerprints have been cleared with the sheriffs office — which clears them, in turn, with the FBI...
...The purpose of the new Peking connection is not to advance such causes but to suppress them...
...In 1970 a cartridge company developed a plastic liner that minimized gun barrel damage, and in 1972 a Connecticut ball bearing firm developed a soft steel pellet that could be sold at a reasonable price...
...And yet, as the Chicago Tribune recently reported, the FBI "kept minutely detailed files on Douglas's political views" from the early 1940s until the mid-1960s — a 256-page dossier cluttered with the silly and vicious gossip of unnamed informants...
...These budgetary priorities reflect the power of key corporate groups to set policy, and they leave the United States with the most inefficient transportation network in the industrialized world...
...Some children never seem to learn that guns kill, and when they grow up, they do so little to protect the next generation from this maniacal butchery...
...Tracking the multinationals Today's world is shaped to an ever-increasing extent by the private decisions of multinational corporations — business conglomerates so powerful they dwarf the world's smaller governments and so pervasive they elude the control of the larger ones...
...To add insult to injury, the applicant must pay up to $10 for the laminated ID card...
...They can do so by writing Multinational Monitor, P.O...
...Nothing other than a militant new peace movement, massively supported by millions of Americans linked in a common cause, is likely to stem the long drift that has now become a rush toward nuclear holocaust...
...A more competitive airline industry will inevitably be a more concentrated industry...
...By the time a duck has ingested two lead pellets, Smith says, its chances of dying of lead poisoning are one in five...
...The ID card was supposed to cut down on local crime, but a spokesman for the St...
...Unquestioning accommodation to the basic assumptions of nuclear weapons strategy — deterrence and the projection of global power — has made the arms control community the unwitting handmaiden of those who build the nuclear war machine...
...In global balance-of-power politics, so the argument goes, China now will serve us even better as a counterweight to the Soviet Union...
...The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 provides that mergers among airlines are to be tested by the anti-trust standards traditionally applied by the courts to the unregulated industries...
...The unimaginable price of nuclear war and the mounting price of preparations for war underline the primacy of this issue for all Americans...
...It sued Kleppe and his department...
...role in Vietnam...
...Given the enormous economic leverage available to major corporations, with their campaign contributions, control over jobs and investments, and access to the mass media, anti-trust laws have merely provided a legal veneer for growing corporate power...
...Regulation of industry has often been initiated at the request of major corporate groups when they found competition had become so fierce as to erode profits...
...Thus, Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, in a recent statement decrying the neutron bomb because it blurs the distinction between conventional and nuclear war, declared: "Deterrence is the drawing of a line beyond which the enemy knows he cannot go without a devastating, unacceptable retaliation...
...That kind of change, coupled with an effective program to conserve energy, would permit the United States to make a relatively smooth transition from the age of petroleum...
...A three-year-old and his five-year-old brother had argued with a seven-year-old, and then they fetched the .357 Magnum their father kept at home...
...He had lost his first game of Russian roulette...
...Perhaps it all dated back to his World War II service as a combat Marine...
...construction may be next...
...Under any circumstances, the normalization of relations between the two governments would be a welcome development...
...The diplomatic formalities now taking place flow not so much from lessons learned from thirty years of estrangement as from a simple re-reading of the old ideological compass...
...a retired general has become the nation's chief arms control and disarmament negotiator...
...The five-year-old cocked the weapon and handed it to the three-year-old...
...Similarly, The New Republic, a voice for liberal opposition to the nuclear arms race, argues in a recent editorial that some of President Carter's current proposals go beyond sim( pie protection of the nuclear deterrent, but then concedes: "We could do that merely by hiding our present land-based , missile force, by making it mobile or by replacing it with sea-based missiles or slow, accurate cruise missiles...
...Regulation brought peace and stable earnings...
...While the Federal budget allocates many billions for highway construction and maintenance, AMTRAK is reported to be struggling for a $200 million capital construction budget...
...What we need is a regulatory apparatus that can impose the rational organization which meets broad public needs rather than corporate demands for higher profits...
...Fish and Wildlife Service has found an intimate relationship between ducks and politics...
...If the armed services are finding it difficult to fill their ranks with volunteers, there are two reasons: 1) the force levels are much greater than they need to be, and 2) the services continue to offer a mean and oppressive life to their recruits...
...While recognition of China may restore a measure of rationality to American foreign policy, it should not be mistaken for recognition — or acceptance — of the revolutionary ferment that brought the People's Republic into being...
...COMMENT The thermonuclear society To some it may always have been obvious, and others will continue to regard it as preposterous, but we can no longer sustain a reasonable doubt about a simple truth so enormous it still seems beyond belief: The Government of the United States is preparing to wage nuclear war, and there is no power in sight that can stop it...
...a duck that has ingested one lead pellet has eleven parts lead per million parts...
...Far from rectifying a profound mistake, today's new diplomatic niceties serve largely to perpetuate it...
...The fundamental issue of nuclear war has been reduced, as John Cort recently observed in Win magazine, to a "debate over the fine-tuning of the American military machine...
...President Carter did the right thing in completing, despite political risk, the process of official reconciliation begun by President Nixon in 1972...
...The short-run benefit to consumers is real and substantial — at least for that minority that travels by air...
...It certainly is...
...Both sides must know just where the deterrence line is...
...If the United States and the world are to be spared the consequences of that course of action (to which a considerable portion of this issue of The Progressive is devoted), the remedy will clearly not be found in the Carter Administration or the constituency that sets its goals and priorities...
...It could also create jobs and ease the impact of inflation...
...An employer who hires someone without "papers" can be fined up to $100...
...Today, in granting full and formal recognition to the People's Republic, there is no evidence that we have come thereby to recognize — and remedy — the conditions that prompted us to withhold it for so long...
...Dead as a duck At a time when human health and life are under unprecedented assault from various toxic substances injected into our environment, the death of ducks as a result of lead poisoning may not loom as a major issue...
...To the impending prospect of nuclear war itself is added the ever-mounting cost of the preparations for war...
...I invited friends over to inspect my derring-do — until one day, at another home, we watched in horror as our pal Melvin, aged fourteen, placed one round into a chamber, spun it, placed the gun to his head, and fired...
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...Concentration in the industry will intensify, and a few companies will come to control larger and larger shares of the market...
...John Olin, moreover, is an avid duck hunter...
...Deterrence must be credible and calculable...
...In today's political climate, that kind of regulatory system will not readily be achieved...
...The rift between Washington and Peking had sown the seeds for two major wars in the Far East...
...auto manufacturers to achieve average fuel consumption of 27.5 miles per gallon by 1985 — a standard already surpassed by many foreign car makers...
...The airlines, for example, have not only been granted new freedom to offer "bargain" fares...
...Whether the issue is a particularly objectionable weapon or a particularly outrageous doctrine, even the occasional victories of these good losers are usually merely defeats in disguise...
...Until two years ago, Fred Ikle was the director of the U.S...
...As an economist with a strong populist streak, as an outspoken battler against corrupt Chicago politics, as a three-term Senator who waged constant war against the encroachments of corporate power, Paul Douglas might have been an appropriate target for the FBI's perverted crusade against political dissidents...
...A decade ago, when Washington's war planners professed that they wanted to extricate themselves from Vietnam but did not know how, the peace movement came up with a simple and effective answer — "The way to stop is to stop...
...The U.S...
...Most duck hunters are simply using lead shot and ignoring the ban...
...In October 1976, a Federal judge threw out the suit, saying Kleppe's plan was "rational...
...trucks and rails may soon be...
...The National Rifle Association (NRA) fought the idea...
...But SALT II, like its predecessor, already contains so many built-in invitations to nuclear arms escalation that ratification has become irrelevant...
...The way to stop is to stop...
...The present Selective Service situation cannot continue," says Representative Melvin Price, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee...
...If Paul Douglas qualified for FBI surveillance and possible "custodial detention," no man, woman, or child in these United States was immune...
...Missile warheads will be made more accurate to enhance the precision of our nuclear strike capability...
...another is the importance of an American global presence...
...The House appropriations subcommittee, headed by Representative Sidney Yates, Illinois Democrat, was uneasy about Stevens' proviso and the Senate and House subcommittees reached a "compromise": The funding law President Carter signed in October shifted the burden of approving or disapproving the lead shot ban from the responsible Federal agency to the states' fish and game departments...
...The reluctance to challenge those assumptions seems deeply ingrained among those who have long carried the banners of token opposition...
...So more curious and mischievous children must die until we learn that handguns, loaded or unloaded, do not belong in our homes...
...Some environmental groups are talking about going back to Federal court to challenge state jurisdiction over national wildlife refuges...
...Ordinance 837, which went into effect last November 1, requires anyone who wants to find a job — or to change jobs — in St...
...Hundreds of letters protesting the lead shot ban poured into the subcommittee in 1978, stimulated by NRA and the Olin Corporation...
...Six states — Arkansas, Louisiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Utah, and McClure's Idaho — turned it down...
...And so the preparations continue...
...But children do visit other children...
...The airline "deregulation" program initiated at the Civil Aeronautics Board under the leadership of Alfred Kahn is being credited with the reduced fares that helped boost air travel during the recent holiday period, and these reduced fares are cited, in turn, as a powerful answer to inflation...
...The domestic opposition to the nuclear arms race has been pathetically enfeebled by its tacit acceptance of assumptions that underlie the build-up...
...The China once viewed as a threat to American economic interests in Asia is now seen as a tempting new commercial market...
...As Richard Barnet notes in "Ultimate Terrorism" on Page 14 of this issue, it took the militancy of the American peace movement to dissuade President Nixon from issuing a nuclear threat against Vietnam in 1970...
...At home, the price we paid for these contortions was the warping of our own social priorities and the relentless repression of dissent to fit official fictions...
...Today, the threat of nuclear war has a different kind of visibility — and an incomparably greater urgency...
...I thought it was great fun to load and unload those two deadly pistols — a German Luger and an Italian Baretta...
...As long as demand for air travel remains heavy, most airlines will be able to absorb the increased capital costs...
...Selective Service is involuntary servitude — intolerable in peacetime and problematic even in time of war, as thousands of conscientious objectors, draft evaders, and deserters demonstrated only a decade ago...
...Jeffrey's life was over at seven, and we should all wonder: If a three-year-old can kill so easily, who is safe from the handgun...
...It stems from the ties — professional, cultural, and economic — which bind the traditionalists to their colleagues in the weapons community...
...But increased competition also means the airlines must begin buying new aircraft to serve more routes...
...Harry E. Freeh Jr., the corporation's top Washington lobbyist, says John Olin believes steel shot "is an inferior product...
...Back in the 1950s, the Fish and Wildlife Service, an arm of the Interior Department, began finding dead ducks in accumulations of 2,000 and 3,000 in areas most heavily hunted by the two million American duck hunters...
...in 1978, the ban was to be extended to the Pacific flyway...
...But deregulation raises some tricky long-range questions that its enthusiastic advocates — including those politicians who are "getting the message" — have not yet confronted...
...The rationality that would come from that more fundamental act of recognition continues to elude Washington...
...William Steif (William Steif is a Washington correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers...
...Consumers, already buffeted by sharp increases in the cost of gasoline and home heating oil, will take another battering: Some independent economists predict the OPEC move will add almost one point to our current inflation rate, and this increase in the cost of living will make it no easier for the Carter Administration to sell labor on its voluntary anti-inflation program — a program that provides no effective controls over increases in energy and food costs...
...WMJ"hy the perpetual build-up...
...It didn't square with his humane domestic concerns, but there it was...
...The plan went into effect...
...The effect has been to nullify the intent of the ban and permit state officials to tell Federal officials what the rules are on Federal lands Congress designated to preserve American wildlife...
...Just as the nuclear arms race increasingly becomes the obstacle that impedes progress toward other national goals, so disarmament becomes the essential avenue through which other goals must be attained...
...It's certainly a help in identifying people...
...We won't go...
...Neither those who favor still more rapid escalation of the nuclear arms race nor those who would prefer to slow it down talk openly about its logical consequences...
...These corporations have also firmly resisted the development of effective intra-city and inter-city mass transit...
...That's when the National Wildlife Federation, supported by the International Association of Fish and Game Directors, began pressing the Interior Department to ban lead shot, but nothing substantive happened until early 1976, when Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe ordered a lead shot ban to be phased in over three years...
...The toll is clear enough in President Carter's new budget, where increased military expenditures will freeze or reduce the level of virtually every social and economic program that might contribute to the real strength of the nation...
...Twenty-four of the thirty-eight states where there is significant duck hunting approved the lead shot ban...
...But the architects of American foreign policy persisted for a quarter of a century in tailoring China and the world to their own fantasies...
...in any event, Paul Douglas even managed to defend the U.S...
...Box 19312, Washington, D.C...
...That kind of law might have averted a recent tragedy in Baltimore...
...In long-range terms, the potential clearly exists for a transition to more energy-efficient modes of production, consumption, and transportation...
...Criticism of one line of nuclear strategy thus becomes an endorsement of a variety of nuclear options, none of which is inconsistent with the Pentagon's overall strategy of endless *-¦ nuclear escalation...
...they have also been freed to enter into competitive scrambles over the routes they serve...
...Mary Parish sheriffs office told United Press International, "I can't honestly say we've seen a drop in the crime rate...
...This is hardly reassuring: Federal anti-trust policy has had little impact on corporate mergers and economic concentration...
...Then he fell...
...This is a welcome step by an organization that, in its far-ranging work over the years, has amply demonstrated an ability to throw light into the dark corners of public policy...
...But I'm not blaming the law for that...
...A pioneering study in 1959 found that 5 per cent of the mallards flying south on the Mississippi flyway each fall died because they ate lead shotgun pellets...
...See, for example, "Disenchantment in the Ranks," by Thomas Conrad and Michael Marchino, on Page 48 of this issue...
...the Secretary of Defense has ordered a new study of how to fight "limited" nuclear wars...
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