Word: controller
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...council to be elected by the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza. As Carter noted in his press conference last week, "If we can accomplish that, then the details of exactly how to administer land and water rights and how to administer other specific elements of security, like controlling terrorism, I think will be resolved without delay." Sadat wants the council to act as a legislature. Begin is adamantly opposed, contending that the council should have only narrow administrative functions. Making it a legislature, he believes, would lay the groundwork for a Palestinian state that might harbor terrorists, whom...
...environmentalists. Reagan had protested that "there seems to be an organized, well-financed lobby that is determined to preserve the natural habitat and comfort of every species except man." But he established an air-resources board and gave it ample power to enforce stiff antipollution standards. He signed smog control laws more stringent than federal requirements. His rigid water pollution controls angered leaders of industry. He set aside an additional 145,000 acres of park lands, including 41 miles of expensive ocean front. He blocked a reservoir that would have submerged the ancestral burial grounds of several Indian tribes...
...Soviets appear to be firmly in control of Kabul. Moscow-appointed advisers are in charge of most government offices, leaving Afghan employees, as one observer put it, with nothing to do but "sit around and drink tea." Outside the capital, the country is still in chaos. The exodus of refugees continues; there are an estimated 700,000 Afghans in Pakistan and 100,000 more in Iran. The demoralized Afghan army, which used to have 80,000 men, is down to 20,000 or 30,000 and suffers from the constant defection of soldiers to the rebel side...
...predawn coup d'état the previous weekend. Pockets of loyalist resistance remained; there was at least one fight between opposing military factions. For the most part, however, the new government, led by a natty master sergeant named Samuel Doe, 28, appeared to be in firm control...
...more than 18%. But in the middle of March, according to Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Gerald Ford, "somebody pulled the plug on the economy." The somebody was Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, who has been working steadily since last August to get control of the growth of money by raising interest rates. The head of the nation's central bank made it clear that he was ready to risk a serious recession in order to get the price explosion under control. In October and then again last month, Volcker jacked...