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...people who are now watching pay and price boosts. Some major corporations will be required to give the Government advance notice of new price hikes. But the Administration has no power to order any union or company to trim a wage or a price, and Carter will not request any such power. Said the President: "Government wage and price controls have never worked in peacetime...
...does not reduce the level of regular programs, he added, because the Transportation Department was going to request an additional $1.2 billion, which would be tied to a windfall profits tax--legislation which has yet to pass Congress...
...vitally important white official who immediately announced his support of the new regime was Lieut. General Peter Walls, 53, who led Rhodesia's bloody seven-year war against the guerrillas. At Mugabe's request, Walls agreed to retain the supreme military command and preside over the integration of Rhodesian forces with the guerrillas in the new national army...
...student may also request a moment of silence...
...even for 1980; 2) Executive action to enact a program of credit controls that would curb the growth of bank lending to businesses or consumers; 3) a new excise tax on gasoline in order to cut energy consumption and curb the inflationary import of foreign oil; and 4) a request to Congress for permission to levy wage and price controls...