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...nationwide programs, which offer instruction in the proper use of firearms and safety in hunting. Nevertheless, the N.R.A. is too soft on gun control for some gun supporters. They have formed the National Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, which is striving to repeal the mild 1968 gun law. Some 60 members of Congress have signed...
...academic freedom. The department's invocation of a Joe McCarthy era law forbidding foreign communists entry into the United States unless they are granted an ineligibility waiver, as justification for not giving Giorgio Napolitano a visa, is an example of the purest form of bureaucratic nonsense. Congess should certainly repeal the law in question, since denying communists entry into this country on the grounds that they represent a danger to the national interest does nothing to insure national security. But, more importantly, the law itself is an invalid excuse for the State Department's behavior. All that is necessary...
Barrage of Noes. After strong Administration lobbying, the Senate had voted to repeal the embargo last May by a narrow 41-40, but Ford lobbied even harder with the House. He pleaded with key Congressmen for their support of a major NATO ally. To help the bill's chances, he watered it down, providing mainly for a restoration of the $ 185 million in arms that Turkey had already contracted to buy. When the measure came to a roll-call vote last week, a series of ayes flashed on the House's electronic screen, and Ford led. Then...
...delegation from the U.S. Senate was in Moscow from June 29 to July 2 [led by Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott]. Reportedly, some of the Senators proposed a compromise whereby the Soviet leaders would promise to raise the emigration quota in exchange for the repeal of the [Jackson] amendment. This deal would be an inadmissible retreat on the part of Congress; indeed, it would be a capitulation because the right to emigrate has to be backed up by law if it is not going to be violated...
...Repeal a complex of laws, regulations and practices that prop up prices for the benefit of special interests. Economists at President Ford's September summit meetings spotlighted 32 such rigidities. Among them: the Davis-Bacon Act, which compels contractors to pay inflationary wages on federally assisted construction projects; the Jones Act, which forbids shippers to use low-cost foreign vessels to move goods from one U.S. port to another; misnamed fair-trade laws that permit manufacturers to prevent retailers from cutting prices on brand-name products; agricultural "marketing orders" that restrict the supply of oranges, tomatoes and other products...