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Attitudes at home set more stringent limits as a rising number of Americans demand to know why they must commit their strength on distant frontiers. They see a diminishing threat to their security as world Communism splits into opposing camps. They relax as the U.S. dialogue with Russia mellows; they worry less about a Red China hobbled by internal dissension. By their insistent questions they force the Administration to search for a set of priorities, to think twice before it exercises U.S. power...
...already has the right to impose restrictions is a matter of dispute within the Food and Drug Administration. So far, the faction which holds that FDA can only give information to doctors has prevailed. Now there is mounting pressure from the subcommittee chairman, Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, for more stringent measures to control prescription of the drug...
...limit the use of federal money in the future to this fraction. Because the poor bear more children than the affluent, the proportion of needy minors is estimated to be increasing from 4.7% now to 5% in 1970. Therefore states will either have to make eligibility rules more stringent, reduce the load by other means, or produce the funds themselves to support the extra indigents...
...trouble is that, under existing laws, advance approval by the Internal Revenue Service is not needed to form a tax-free foundation. To start up, all that a hopeful foundation founder has to do is to satisfy a few state-set requirements, and they are usually not very stringent. Says Patman: "The IRS tries to give the impression that it double-checks all foundation operations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Only a very small fraction are checked in any given year." But IRS is now warning that it has "doubts about the legality" of ABC-type foundations...
Responding to the complaints, the state in recent years has adopted ever-tougher curbs on the strippers. Most stringent of all was the order signed this month by outgoing Governor Edward T. Breathitt ten hours before turning over his office to incoming Republican Louie B. Nunn. The order forbids strip miners from working slopes steeper than 28°. Straight up in the air went the industry, thundering that it would be driven out of business, which was exactly what it said last year when the maximum slope was put at 33°. Since then, new operations have doubled...