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...issues." Democrats will have ample opportunity to score further political points. Hearings were scheduled to begin this week in Congress on tightening up the laws governing waste disposal. The scandal's repercussions are likely to affect other environmental legislation, spurring Congress to reauthorize a passel of environmental measures that have lapsed and strengthen clean-air-and-water laws this session. Says Republican Senator John Chafee, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: "This Administration will not want to be portrayed as lukewarm on the environment any more. That is the positive fallout...
...irritability about him trying to drag us through a lot of issues we just don't need to deal with," observes one moderate Republican. Neither is the North Carolinian considered an effective legislator by his colleagues: rather than focus on one issue, Helms decided to offer a passel of bills and amendments, thus muddying his own agenda. "He can block, but he can't pass," noted an aide to the Senate leadership. At least one conservative Republican who knows a little about lost causes feels that Helms has simply misjudged the popularity of his crusade all along...
...loose in the West, perhaps a third more than the land can handle. For that reason, the BLM stages periodic roundups and puts the trapped horses up for public adoption. Dale Crawford, 53, an Oregonian who runs down horses for a living, has outbid-at $58 a head-a passel of others for the right to thin the Piceance herd from 346 horses to 166. Along with his wife Shirley, 52, and brother Gil, Crawford has spent hours in the garage perfecting the labyrinthine steel pen. He has spent another two days airborne over Yellow Creek, scouting the precise location...
Also awaiting the return of Reagan and the Congress in September is a passel of potentially explosive domestic is sues. Among them...
...passel of columnists-among them such articulate fellows as William F. Buckley and George F. Will-espouse the same economic and social causes as Reagan does, but when they get to discussing Reagan's knowledge or reasoning powers, they sound somewhere between patronizing and apologetic. Carter, however, lacks even such a community of ideological backing in press or country; his yawing on issues has disaffected groups of supporters he could normally count upon. Liberal columnists, though they long ago gave up on Teddy Kennedy, like his brand of Democratic rhetoric. Carter's old buddy Andrew Young now writes...