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...Cambridge citizens group investigating controversial recombinant DNA research will announce its findings in a long-awaited report Wednesday night, but Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci is expected to call for a three-month extension of the moratorium on the research at tonight's City Council meeting...
Essentially, Prime Minister James Callaghan agreed to take the politically explosive step of carving $5.8 billion out of Britain's $18 billion budget deficit over the next two years, largely by slashing government outlays. The Cabinet is considering draconian spending cuts, like a moratorium on all government construction. Ministers are further thinking about removing automatic cost-of-living increases from social security payments and civil service pensions, despite an inflation rate now running at almost 15%. Defense expenditures will be cut too (see THE WORLD), but not as sharply as social spending. Some British taxes will have...
Goodman would not name the utility company that "invited" Wilson to speak for nuclear energy in Ohio this year, two weeks before voters there defeated a proposed moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants...
...developing world. "Zaïre's folly is not so unique," observes an American businessman in Kinshasa, the capital. Third World countries as a group have piled up a foreign debt that is estimated to be as high as $150 billion; international conferences resound with cries for a moratorium or stretch-out of repayments on a large part of that debt. By mid-1976 U.S. banks alone had some $30 billion in outstanding loans to five nations-Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Indonesia-that are considered potential problem debtors. The Zaïrian debacle increases doubts about how much...
...move aggressively to stop the proliferation of atomic weapons. I have proposed, in definitive terms I believe, in speeches at the United Nations and subsequent events, eleven different things that ought to be done to hold down just a peaceful proliferation of plutonium and other atomic wastes, with a moratorium on the testing of all nuclear devices and with a prohibition against the sale of atomic fuel to countries that don't agree to prevent changing their waste into atomic explosives...