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...endangered species have become ever more endangered as Congress has moved to dilute the Endangered Species Act of 1973. President Carter's moves to protect threatened species since he took office have ranged from the ineffectual to the non-existent. His decision in the next budget message to request funding to supplement the staffs of those agencies charged with enforcing the 1973 legislation is only a small step along the road of environmental sanity; the basic obstacles in the way of those who would prevent the extinction of hundreds of species remains...
Carter's current move is little better than cosmetic. His budget request would fund only six more biologists for the endangered species listing staff in the Interior Department, a far cry from that department's needs. Carter should press for legislation that would abolish the review committee, and he should veto any ad hoc attempts to pass exceptions to the decisions taken by those charged with protecting the endangered species of this country...
Even if Carter decides to order a U.S. boycott, he lacks the authority to enforce it. According to Olympic rules, only a country's Olympic committee may withdraw its athletes, and the u.s.o.c. is strongly opposed to any boycott. Whether it would refuse a formal presidential request is hard...
Scoffed Amoakon Thiemele of the Ivory Coast: "Moscow had the brazenness to proclaim that it had come in at the request of the overthrown government." Lamented Nigeria's B. Akporode Clark: "No country had assisted the Third World more than the Soviet Union. Thus Nigeria has now felt a great sense of disappointment." One after the other, the delegates lashed out at Moscow. It was almost without precedent as a show of anti-Soviet sentiment among the Third World countries...
...intends to call for authority to impose nationwide gasoline rationing if only a 5% fuel shortage develops, instead of waiting until the shortage becomes a crippling 20%, as the law now requires. This is also a victory for Eizenstat, but there are problems with that plan. Carter's request will have a tough time passing Congress, which set the 20% requirement last year to make rationing only a last-ditch action. Also, details of an emergency rationing plan are not expected to be ready before this autumn. It will contain many exemptions that the public will consider unfair...