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...taxes on buyers of big gas-guzzlers. Carter's recommendation for graduated increases in gasoline taxes, which could have totaled 50? per gal. within ten years, was dropped, and the House also defeated a substitute proposal to raise the 4? per gal. federal gas tax by 5?. That setback was no great loss; there is a suspicion in Washington that the 500 proposal was planned in the first place as a throwaway to give Congress something to kill. Also the President could not sell the House on giving him power to order factories to switch from oil or natural...
Soares' first major defeat came on a bill intended to extend central control over local governments. The bill was objectionable to all three opposition parties, since they have large municipal followings in some areas, and the unlikely trio teamed up to kill it. The setback was the first sign of parliamentary cooperation between the P.S.D. and the C.D.S. following the creation of a so-called con-vergencia democrdtica, in which the two parties, though shying away from forming a unified voting bloc, agreed to work together when possible. What irked the opposition, said Amaro da Costa, was the Socialists...
...agents trained in the Quantico center received the tip about the moonlighting music publishers in Philadelphia and cracked the case wide open. But their efforts may receive a setback this week, when U.S. Judge J. William Ditter rules on defense motions to throw out the indictments. The reason: no federal law specifically prohibits the theft of computer time or computer data. The U.S. Attorney decided to charge the pair with mail fraud for advertising their music, and that may prove inadequate...
Arab League Secretary-General Mahmoud Riad called last week's battle "a setback to Arab solidarity." He beseeched both sides to stop fighting, since a war between the neighbors would only benefit the enemy, Israel. Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat shuttled between Cairo and Tripoli to soothe tempers. If it comes to a full-scale war, Egypt's army outnumbers Libya's by about 11 to 1 and is much better trained. But Cairo must worry about 200,000 Egyptians who live and work in Libya to bolster that country's infant economy. They would become hostages...
Although he was a veteran of Mao's Long March who remained personally close to the Chairman until the early 1960s, Teng disagreed with Mao's 1958 Great Leap Forward, which marked a disastrous setback for China, particularly in agriculture. In the Leap's aftermath, Teng, who was then general secretary of the Party, introduced a gradualist agricultural reform program designed to undo the damage. In a 1962 speech that was to haunt him later, Teng declared that ideology came second to results: "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production, any by-hook-or-by-crook method...