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When Washington began sending revenue-sharing checks to local communities in 1972, the idea was to spur local solutions to local problems. Some cities used the money to meet obvious, social needs: hospitals, sanitation facilities, public transportation. Others, like Atlanta, tried to divide the money among homeowners and landlords. A few country hamlets, suspecting some dastardly Washington plot either to curtail their liberties or buy their allegiance, have sent back their checks uncashed. None of these answers was quite right, though, for the residents of St. Louis County, a wealthy suburban area outside St. Louis. The county council has decided...
...agreements on behalf of West Berlin, which Bonn insists is part of the Federal Republic and which the Soviets maintain is a separate political entity. Brandt also wants West Germany to represent West Berlin at the United Nations. On relations with East Germany, the Chancellor hopes that Brezhnev can spur some action on the agreements that were supposed to follow the treaty that was signed last December, "normalizing" relations between the two Germanys. The proposed pacts would cover such areas as youth exchanges, sports competition and civil air routes...
...naive approach has advantages--freshness and freedom from preconceptions of what is possible, can spur an institution into considering old issues in new ways. On the other hand, such an approach is highly susceptible to impatience and frustration as things and people seem to balk over and over again at the thought of change. Naivete brings with it a certain detachment that makes things seem quite straightforward by considering only the issues and not the people involved in them. Experience shown--fast--that no matter how sound the ideology, no matter how appropriate the policy, the implementation of it rests...
...special energy message to Congress last month, President Nixon tried to steer a middle course while easing the shortages. He acted to increase supplies of foreign oil by abolishing the rigid import quota system and replacing it with a flexible system of tariffs on imported oil. To spur domestic output, Nixon ordered the Interior Department to triple by 1979 the amount of federal acreage leased to oil and gas companies. Moreover, the President asked Congress to drop price controls on new finds of natural gas, to extend investment tax credits on both dry and producing wells and to streamline time...
...defeat may help spur the golfers on in the Eastern Intercollegiate tournament at Penn State on Saturday. "We have to prove that we're better than this," Yellin said. "We got a kick in the ass and maybe it'll help...