Carter signs law to empower agency consolidation drive
Perspective notes Mr Carter backed a new law broadening power to merge or scrap federal agencies while proposing a White House consumer advocacy agency. The editorial argues genuine reform hinges on limiting new ideas and accurate agency counts, not adding entities.
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Consumer Protection Agency
Congress
Bert Lance
Office of Management and Budget
Virginia
Lance
Ployes
Openers Fire Up Big League Baseball Across Two Cities
Thousands flocked to season openers in Cincinnati and Seattle as the Reds beat the Padres 5 to 3 behind Cy Young winner Randy Jones. The Angels routed the Mariners 7 to 0 in Seattle. Damp weather lingered, yet play continued, marking baseballs return to a marquee marathon seek October glory.
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Mariners
Hobson’s choice Abe or Bella for New York mayor
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak assess a dire New York to face a bleak choice in the September Democratic primary. Abe Beame is seen as the lesser evil but flawed, while Bella Abzug’s radical stance could derail a viable path to city recovery. The piece notes bankruptcy, demographic shifts, and business flight as pressures shaping a “Hobson’s choice” between Beame and Abzug.
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Abe Beame
Bella Abzug
Beame
Mrs. Abzug
Brooklyn
Jamaica
Mobil Corp
Falls Re
New Jersey
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Hugh Carey
John Zuccotti
Abe
Zuccotti
Bella
City Hall
Zuctotti
Carter
Edward Koch
Richard Ravitch
Edward Costikyan
Hobson's
Buckley on Energy Countdown and the Schlesinger Plan
William F Buckley Jr critiques James Schlesinger and Anthony Lewis as they discuss energy policy. He argues taxes curb demand but do not boost supply, urging individual choice and delaying depletion while noting practical limits and the need for market-driven decisions.
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James Schlesinger
Congress
General Motors
Schlesinger
Anthony Lewis
Lewis
The General Silliness Of The Ethics Code
James J Kilpatrick attacks the Senate ethics code as absurd and overlong hoping to curb corruption. He argues the law’s breadth fails to change behavior, noting gifts limits definitions and travel bans while predicting self interest and dull rules won’t produce a better Senate.
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Senate
Robert Byrd
Byrd
Daugher
Lord Macaulay
Congress
House
Nuclear power debate and global build up in 1970s energy seen
John Chamberlain reports anti nuke sentiment and KGB theories while nations expand nuclear programs. West Germany France and others push large scale plants, U S adds six in 1976 with ten more planned for 1977. Governors discuss waste containment and Carter era energy strategy amid ongoing fuel and coal challenges.
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Secret Police
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Spain
Italy
Japan
Nuclear News
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Hinsdale
Illinois
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National Governors Conference
Dixie Lee Ray
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Henry Jackson
Jackson
Jimmy Carter
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James J. Kilpatrick
John Chamberlain
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