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...agencies that were delaying needed developments. The House-passed bill goes further than Carter proposed and gives the board power even to overturn federal laws, although state and local ones remain outside its domain, Arizona Democrat Morris Udall and other Capitol Hill environmentalists feared that the new agency might repeal two decades of antipollution crusades. But a strong coalition demanding an end to energy delays resisted substantial weakening of the new body's authority...
...weekend combines politics with survival. Participants work out a 16-point "platform to revitalize America." Among the proposals: U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations, an end to all foreign aid, repudiation of the national debt, abolition of the Federal Reserve System, and repeal of federal and state income tax laws. The delegates listen to a parade of speakers decry Communism, Zionism, U.S. foreign policy, Big Government, and politicians who ignore their constituents...
...Foreign Secretary must now try his luck on a new set of problems, namely the transitional arrangements. His plan calls for the Muzorewa government to repeal the 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence, dissolve the Salisbury Parliament and relinquish its own power...
...Massachusetts the Doyle Bill would cut off state funds in the same manner as the Hyde Amendment. Formerly an adjunct to the budget it was passed and signed as a bill this year. Appealed by MORAL (the Massachusetts Organization for the Repeal of Abortion Laws), the bill is under injunction and pending review by the Federal District Court on the basis of a Supreme Court decision that all medically necessary services must be available to the poor. As of last May, hospitals are no longer required to perform abortions upon demand except in case of probable death to the mother...
...black workers who do not have permanent resident status in white areas to organize trade unions. He also proposed changes that would permit blacks to eat in white restaurants and qualify them for higher-paying jobs now reserved for whites. Most shocking to traditionalist Afrikaners: suggestions of a possible repeal of the Mixed Marriages Act and the Immorality Act, the laws under which more than 15,000 South Africans have been prosecuted for marrying or having sexual relations across the color line. Botha urged the reforms with rhetoric that is mild by U.S. standards but nearly inflammatory for a dedicated...