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Only those close to such situations can full! understand the lnartache an anxious uncertainty that parents and familis fed whui a loved orue is ahducted…or the horror experienced by the victims, even If eventually released. Moved by the kidnapping of s year- old Rachael Marie Rumyan and similar cases in his ownstate, Rep. Dan Marriott,… Continue reading Adopt Missing Childrcn’s Act

Super-clean air is always welcome in an industrial area-but bread and butter are prime necusities That apparently was the thinking, in part, of the Environmental Protection Agency in deciding to permit U.S. Steel Corpr to delay air pollution count for three years and to divert the savings lnto new mill equipment, EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch… Continue reading Clean cir versus necessities

Remember the “good old days” when you could enroll in a university for $35 to $100 per quarter, buy sirloin steak for 50 cents a pound, and occupy a hospital room for six bucks a day? Salaries, like costs, have risen sharply since then – thank goodness! But tt’s still fun to reminisce about that… Continue reading Those good old doys…

Mankind stepped over the threshold of the space age 15 years ago when on Oct. 4, 1957 the Soviet Union successfully orbited Sputnik I, the first manmade earth satellite. Even as scientists around the world listened to the “beepbeep” radio voice of the Zitinch sphere, America was preparing for its first satellite launch a few… Continue reading Taday’s Space Age Birthday

By N. laVerl Christensen Since President Reagan took office, talk of selling surplus public lands and other real property has been accelerated. lndeed there has been considerable talk of earmarking monies derived from such sales toward reducing the $1 trillion-plus national debt. Earlier this year President Reagan initiated a new property program aimed at improving… Continue reading Surplus Iund
and the budget

Awhile back the General Services Administration discovered it had wasted more than $300,000 by renting 18,000 feet of office space in New York that went unused for nearly two years. 1 i ” It cancelled the lease after investigating a tip from the nationwide, toll-free fraud hotline, set up nearly four years, ago to fight… Continue reading GAO lHotline Saves Millions

When President Reagan announced formation of a presidential commission on drunk driving and a campaign for seat belt use he commented that the nation is “outraged” by the camage on the highways. He had good reasons for both the action and the comment: – Fifty thousand Americans die annually on the streets and highways, about… Continue reading Reagan Fights Drunken Drivers

A recommendation by the Governor’s Panel on Drinking and Driving that recommended stiffer penalties for drunk drivers and tightening the legal definition of drunkenness should get serious attention by the state’s legislators. Alcohol-related accidents are unusually gruesome. Large numbers of drinking drivers involved in accidents either kill themselves or someone else. In 1981, more than… Continue reading War on Drunk Driving Necessary

Should the Internal Revenue Service be exempt from compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act passed by Congress in December 19807 Sen. Lowell Weicker Jr., R-Conn., chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee, and 12 members of his panel don’t think so. The’ve written a letter to Sen, Robert Dole, R-Kan. chairman of the Senate Finance… Continue reading IRS Red Tape Should Be Lessened

Congressional procedures sometimes seem slow and unwieldy but the lawmakers demonstrated they can act efficiently and with dispatch in a crisis when they passed emergency legislation to impose a railroad strike settlement. As a result, freight and passenger trains are rolling again after a four-day strike of 26,000 locomotive engineers that paralyzed rail transportation. The… Continue reading Ruilroud Meusu re Reduces Losses