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Much will depend, of course, on the outcome and the assessment of the Pennsylvania drama. The Department of Energy had planned to ask congressional approval for the building of experimental repositories for nuclear waste, which remains radioactive for thousands of years. California and Wisconsin have in effect banned construction of new power plants until some better method of disposing of the waste can be found. Three Mile Island can only strengthen the hands of some Congressmen who have been insisting that licensing of new plants be halted unless a series of deadlines for progress on waste disposal...
...proposal drew predictable howls from states and communities that depend on military payrolls. In Homestead, Fla., 30 miles south of Miami, businessmen are worried about the economic impact of the transfer of a 1,650-man contingent from Homestead Air Force Base to installations in North Carolina and Texas. The rebilleting, says Mayor Nicholas Sincere, would slash the $105 million local military spending by about $25 million...
Ultimately, the success of the Egyptian-Israeli peace will probably depend on Washington. Notes L. Dean Brown, a former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan and now president of the Middle East Institute in Washington: "The main burden [in getting the treaty's terms fulfilled] will once again fall on the President. He will be forced to hammer out compromises on these serious problems, and that will take up an enormous amount of his time. But Sadat cannot afford to let Carter off the hook because the American's presence in the talks may be the only way to consistently...
...that the Egyptian government will take an unfriendly and aggressive attitude toward the Arabs. At the same time, there will be an increase in the Arabs' unfriendly feelings toward Americans. Also, this action [signing the treaty] will hasten the day of revolution against those reactionary regimes that depend on the Americans, and it will push Arabs to depend more and more on the Soviet Union...
Whether the Corporation votes for the withdrawal of Timkin and other companies from South Africa will depend, it appears, on how it observes its past statements on whether the "non-responsive" companies respond to the "forcefully worded" letters that the ACSR said should be sent...