Free Market Critics Question Energy Price Deregulation
The piece argues against full price decontrol for petroleum and natural gas. It notes Melvin R. Laird's deregulation plan with windfall taxes and cash grants for low income citizens. It casts doubt on Big Oil's influence and the feasibility of real consumer benefits from free pricing.
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Carter
Melvin R. Laird
Defense
Nixon
Ford
American Enterprise Institute
National Energy Project
Army Dilemmas Weigh Draft vs Women Soldiers
Critics warn the all volunteer force is underperforming with only 47 percent of recruits graduating high school. Some urge a return to conscription while others push expanding opportunities for women in the Army to raise both numbers and standards.
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U.S. Army
Army
Nixon to break retirement with Frost interviews on Watergate
Nixon, living reclusively in San Clemente since resigning in 1974, plans televised talks with David Frost. The programs will cover his White House years and Watergate, amid rising interest as Time previews the interviews and CBS films Mike Wallace piece. The case over White House tapes remains before the Supreme Court as Nixon seeks custody.
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Nixon
San Clemente
Calif
Nikita Khrushchev
David Frost
White House
Congress
Frost
Marvin Minoff
Paradine
The
Los Angeles Times
America
Time Magazine
Cbs-Tv
60 Minutes
Mike Wallace
Supreme Court
SALT talks breakdown reshapes arms control efforts
A Washington Merry-Go-Round analysis traces the 1970 74 SALT clash between Carter Vance and Brezhinsky with Brown Warnke and Jackson. It argues misreadings from Vladivostok to Moscow stalled deals but may spur a new push toward limits on missiles and bombers by 1986.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
White House
Cyrus Vance
Moscow
Carter
United States
Gerald Ford
Leonid Brezhnev
Vladivostok
U.S
Henry Kissinger
Harold Brown
Jor
Soviets
Brown
Paul Warnke
Warnke
Sen
Henry
Jackson
D.wash
Kremlin
Pentagon
Joint Chiefs
Vance
State Dept
Zbigniew Brezinski
Energy Policy: Free Market Tinkering Needs Focused Action
A conservative view argues the nation faces an energy crisis not about Carter's fate but about serious policy. It criticizes Carter’s tax credit plan as market tinkering, urges realistic deterrents against waste, strong incentives for alternative energy, and asserts Congress should enable the free market to drive solutions while avoiding broad government overreach.
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Carter
Congress
Save Our Oil Why Should We
A debate over energy conservation pits President Carter's call to protect reserves against a self reliant stance. A friend argues each generation must find its own oil, preferring immediate use to future limits while the narrator stresses responsibility and long term planning.
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Washington
Carter
Clemstone
Texas
Oklahoma
Gulf of Mexico
Alaska
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Kumble
Mr. Carter
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