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Ecological Hazard. No scientists are willing to forecast the effects of the oil now spreading seaward from the Argo Merchant. Most believe that if the globs of oil, called oilbergs because most of their mass is below the surface, continue to move east, the damage will be held to a minimum. But shifting winds could still bring the oil ashore, fouling beaches and causing massive ecological damage. The spill has already driven hundreds of sea birds ashore, bedraggled and helpless. The oil could also threaten humpback whales, which migrate through the affected area, and imperil the already endangered gray seals...
...Christmas shopper scrambling to get it all done in time, Jimmy Carter managed to meet his deadline: he got his full Cabinet named by Dec. 25. The final announcements came last week in three televised presentations at Carter headquarters in Plains, and the biggest of the "surprises" so often forecast by the President-elect's aides was that there were so few surprises. With 18 top jobs filled, including all twelve Cabinet positions and the main economic and national-security slots, it was clear that the man who had campaigned as Mr. Outside wanted men (and women) around...
...committee is chaired by Mississippi's archconservative James O. Eastland, who urged Carter to appoint Bell. At week's end, moreover, some black organizations that had loudly opposed Bell appeared ready to recon sider in view of his pro-civil rights decisions. Certain Carter watchers, meanwhile, forecast that the President-elect will name some well-known civil rights activists to important jobs at Justice just to speed up the cooling-off process...
Every economic forecast is in part a political forecast−but when a new Administration is about to take power in Washington, politics becomes absolutely dominant. For the past eight years, Republican policymakers under Presidents Nixon and Ford have tried everything they could think of−from laissez-faire to wage-price controls−to grapple with the problems of production, prices and jobs. The results, as the Republican era ends, are decidedly mixed. After starting 1976 on a strong recovery from the worst recession since the 1930s, the U.S. economy is now faltering. True enough, a record 88.1 million...
...result, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has been forced to scale down growth forecasts for its 24 member nations, which make up most of the non-Communist industrialized world. Assuming no change in policy, and without allowing for the deadening impact of an oil-price rise, the OECD is predicting growth of 4.3% for the first six months of next year, v. its earlier forecast of 5.3%. For all of 1977, the OECD sees the U.S. economy growing by only 4%, well below its earlier projection of 6%, while expansion in other industrial nations will...