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Overworked and toothless watchdogs, however, are notoriously ineffective, and the Permanent Committee on Women proves the rule. "I'm not very proud of what we've accomplished this year," chairman Morton W. Bloomfield, professor of English, said last week. "We're trying to say that you've got to pay more attention to women, but we have no real power." Bloomfield went on to say that the committee had spent most of the year "finding out how we're going to work...
...demand for energy is growing at such a rate-doubling every 15 years-that some officials already call it the nation's most basic economic problem. "A crisis," says Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton. "Endemic and incurable," says John A. Carver Jr., vice chairman of the Federal Power Commission. "Sabotage power and you sabotage the future," warns M. Frederik Smith, a business consultant to the Rockefeller family...
...After great deliberation and reflection, I have determined that it is in the national interest ... to grant a right-of-way permit for the trans-Alaska pipeline from the North Slope to the southern port of Valdez." In making that announcement last week, Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton explained that the U.S. will need at least 20 million barrels of oil per day by 1980, and that domestic production apart from Alaska will be only half that much. As for the rival route across Canada, he declared that the $3 billion, 770-mile Alaska line will be cheaper and quicker...
...Actually Morton cannot yet issue construction permits because he is under a court injunction that requires him to give two weeks' notice to environmentalists who are already suing him in an effort to stop the pipeline. Those suits charge that the pipeline will damage the tundra and threaten wildlife, so it will finally be up to the courts to decide how, when, where, or indeed whether the pipeline will be built...
...Lifchitz, pianist, playing his works and those of Presichetti, Prado, Berio, Morton Feldman, and Hindemith. Currier House SCR. 8:30, May 6. Free...