Editorial: A Top Priority for Emission Standard Relaxation
Editorial urges quick relaxation of 1978 car emission standards as Congress opens the 95th Congress. Cites UAW backing and ERC findings that relaxed limits won’t harm public health, argues for preserving automotive jobs and regional economy through a letter-writing campaign to lawmakers.
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United Automobile Workers of America
UAW
Leonard Woodcock
Energy Resource Council
ERC
Volvo
California
Volkswagen
Environmental Protection Agency
Anderson
Local 662
Local 663
Capital Fare Bureaucrats Clobbered By ANDREW TULLY
Washington column by Andrew Tully criticizes feminist and legal reactions to the Supreme Court six to three ruling on pregnancy benefits in disability insurance. He argues the decision adheres to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and questions EEOC guidelines, urging respect for Congress and the law.
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Supreme Court
Karen DeCrow
National Organization For Women
Ruth Ginsburg
DeCrow
Ginsburg
William Rehnquist
General Electric
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC
Congress
Femlibbers
New Year's resolutions by a columnist warn against drinking
The piece parodies a famed New Year’s list of resolutions and outlines playful, tongue in cheek vows. It blends humor about politics, media figures, and social issues with light self criticism and a nod to Pegler’s famous vow not to mix alcohol.
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Ralph de Toledano
Copley
Washington
Westbrook Pegler
Peg
George Meany
Nelson Rockefeller
American Civil Liberties Union
Richard Nixon
Walter Cronkite
Bella Abzug
Taxing Perks Sparks Fight Over Fringe Benefits
Washington columnist Ron Hendren argues that taxing employee perquisites such as free meals, discounted travel, and tuition breaks could trigger a nationwide backlash. He says perks strengthen job ties and morale, and warns federal plans may provoke broad opposition from workers including airline staff and university staff.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Treasury Department
Treasury
A Moral From Apel On Bulgaria Greece Trends
Washington column reviews Professor Hans Apel’s postwar survey of Bulgarian and Greek households. It critiques method and motives, noting Bulgarian responses were more candid and Greek reports more guarded. The piece ends with a warning against self-defeating national choices and cites a pre print of Apel’s work from 1976.
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Holmes Alexander
Washington
D.C
Hans Apel
National Foundation
University of Michigan
Bulgaria
Greece
West
Apel
U.S
State Department
NATO
Common Market
National Review
Human Events
Right Report
New Guard
Athens
Sophia Commissars
Moscow
Dr. Apel
Lenin
Stalin
Plato
Aristotle
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Stick By Your Gun Opinion Reflects Gun Debate
Paul Harvey recalls Massachusetts vote rejecting handgun bans while mass shootings and crime fear push gun ownership. He cites a South Carolina incident where farmer Harry Powell defended his property with a pistol as an example of personal gun rights in action. The piece argues public sentiment side with keeping guns.
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Paul Harvey Joyce Pirtle
Owensboro
Massachusetts
Kennedys
Carter
Congress
Farmer Powell
Powell
Harry Powell
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
At Wit's End Readers Debate The Raising Of Boys
ERMA BOMBFECK presents reader letters on whether raising boys ages a mother faster than girls. The exchanges show humor and frustration as mothers recall chaotic antics from upraising boys to a newborn daughter and conclude with a tongue in cheek truce.
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Stacy
Baretta
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