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Jimmy Carter is trying to take the pork out of the pork barrel, and Congress wants to leave it in. The basic fight is as simple as that, but the ramifications are enormous, millions of Americans will be affected, the issues are hotly debatable, and the struggle threatens to become the new President's most serious conflict with Capitol Hill...
...CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT. Congressman Morris Udall, another dedicated conservationist, is urbane enough to acknowledge that one man's "sound water-resource project" is another man's pork barrel. As it happens, one of the Congressman's public works is on Carter's list: the $1.6 billion Central Arizona Project, now about 20% complete, which would draw upon the Colorado River in the western part of the state, pump the water 2,000 ft. uphill and carry it by 400 miles of aqueducts to the outskirts of Phoenix and Tucson...
...Haven't I seen this lamb before? Like yesterday, under the alias of pork...
...here. I ordered three hot and sour and two shark fin. You got it exactly backward. The moo shu pork came without any pancakes and where are the lichee nuts...
...personal conviction, they want to ban liquor from the family quarters, that is no one's business but their own. To turn the rest of the White House into a dry zone, however, is no more proper than would be a Jewish President's banning of pork and shellfish from the White House menu. Daniel F. Goldman Baltimore