Women argue over ERA politics and battered women program
A debate over the Equal Rights Amendment and women’s rights unfolds across states. New Hampshire officials clash with council members over a battered women program while pro ERA forces are accused of steering conferences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
State Council On the Status of
New Hampshire Commission
Maoldiie Thomese
New Hampshire Council On the Status of Women
Gloria Belzil
Presidents Versus Bureaucracy in Carter Reorganization Plan
President Carter pushes a broad reorganization plan to cut White House staff and transfer agencies, using zero based budgeting to detail costs. Critics warn big government complexity and political resistance may hamper the effort, as presidents seek tighter control over federal bureaus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carter
Congress
House of Congress
White House
Georgia
ZBB
Robert S. McNamara
Defense
Pentagon
Johnson
Robert W. Hartman
Brookings Institution
Kennedy
Fred V. Malek
Cloudy
Financial Post
Elmer Cooper
Illinois
San Francisco
Bay Area
DeJongh Franklin
Franklin
Cooper
Commission
William Bagley
Bert Lance
Gang of Four Alive in China Says Senator
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum reports Chinese leader Tan Chen Lin saying the Gang of Four remain at large and influential after Mao’s death. The senator notes evidence that Lin Piao's crash involved U.S. talk of Taiwan and severed relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Uss
Mao Tsetung
Ching
Mao
Sen
Howard Metzenbaum
Ohio
Gang of Four
Chiang Ching
Hua Kuo-feng
Metzenbaum
China
Shirley
Shelley
Tan Chen-lin
Tan
Lin’ Piao
Lin Piao
Soviet Union
United States
U.S
Taiwan
Conservatives Clash Over Oil Giants and Energy Policy
The Senate debate centers on Kennedy’s amendment to bar major oil producers from acquiring coal or uranium interests. Conservatives cry expropriation while liberals push for stronger competition and limits on oil company power. The piece traces years of horizontal expansion by Gulf Oil and others, warning that energy conglomerates threaten market balance and energy diversity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teddy Kennedy
Birch Bayh
Howard Metzenbaum
Prospec
Senate
Kennedy
Tower of Texas
Kennedy, Bayh
Gulf Oil
Pittsburg Midway Coal Company
Continental Oil
Consolidation Coal
Occidental Petroleum
Island Creek
Standard Oil of
Ohio
Old Ben
Kerr-McGee
Parking Lot Politics in Faculty Row
A Washington columnist narrates a university parking dispute where a professor named Rubloff is reassigned from Parking Lot A to Lot B. The chancellor cites a Faculty Parking Committee and gender equity changes, while Rubloff faults Carstairs for punitive moves over a sharp review. The tale ends with Rubloff denied appeal for the term as others decide his fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Buchwald
Washington
Rubloff
University
Seagram
Teetoler
New York Times
Professor Carstairs
Mary
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William V. Thomas
Civil Service
Federal Executive Branch
George Mason
Colorado
Floyd Haskell
Haskell
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