MICKEY EDWARDS COLLECTION

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F1-6: Correspondence, 1983, Energy, Natural Gas Decontrol
Topics include cost of natural gas, Natural Gas Policy Act, pipeline contracts, HR 1760, deregulation, price controls, Ronald Reagan decontrol proposals, price freezes, Natural Gas Regulatory Reform amendments, phase-out period, and S. 1715.

F7: Correspondence, 1983, Energy, Natural Gas Decontrol, Opinion Ballots

F8: Correspondence, 1983, Energy, Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978
Topics include gas prices, fuels use, and repeal of the act.

F9: Correspondence, 1983, Energy, Oil and Gas Industries
Topics include Bartlesville Energy Technology Center, taxation, oil exploration, windfall profits tax, exemption for stripper wells, and gasoline tax.
Correspondents include Hamp Baker and Billy Evans Horse.

F10: Correspondence, 1983, Environment
Topics include Clean Air Act amendments, acid rain, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cooperative research units.
Correspondents include Steven Alan Lewis.

F11: Correspondence, 1983, Environment, Animal Welfare
Topics include steel jaw leg traps, inhumane laboratory research, and using pound animals for research.

F12: Correspondence, 1983, Environment, Hazardous Waste
Topics include Shelby-Lent amendment to Section 3, Hazardous Waste Control and Enforcement Act (HR 2867), disposal of nuclear waste, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Correspondents include Joan K. Leavitt.

F13: Correspondence, 1983, Environment, James Watt (Secretary of the Interior)

F14: Correspondence, 1983, Environment, Lands
Topics include sale of federal lands, use of public lands, alunite strip mine in Colorado, Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, National Park Protection and Resources Management Act (HR 5976), hunting in wilderness lands, Wilderness Protection Act (HR 6542), Alaskan lands, including Black Fork Mountain and the Upper Kiamichi in the National Wildlife Preservation system, and Ouachita National Forest.
Correspondents include Norris Price, George Nigh, and Oklahoma Wildlife Foundation.

F15: Correspondence, 1983, Environment, Water
Topics include Oklahoma water supply, Copan Lake, Ocoee River in Tennessee (H Con. Res. 125), Clean Water Act reauthorization (HR 3282), Garrison Diversion project, wetlands, Seward Reservoir, and silt buildup in the North Canadian River.
Correspondents include George Nigh, Abe L. Hesser, Steven Alan Lewis, and Dave Herbert.

F16: Correspondence, 1983, Federal Government
Topics include extending daylight savings time, combined federal campaign, restoration of the west façade of the U.S. Capitol building, and Corps of Administrative Law Judges.
Correspondents include Gerald Grimes.

F17-21: Correspondence, 1983, Federal Government, Civil Service
Topics include Medicare coverage, civil service regulation reforms (HR 2449), cost-of-living allowances (COLAs), retirement benefits, mental health care (HR 656), pay, pensions, combining civil service retirement with Social Security, raising the age of retirement, and postal workers.

F22: Correspondence, 1983, Federal Government, Non-Profit Political Activities
Topics include federal funding of non-profits and OMB A-122 regulations.

F23: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs
Topics include U.S. diplomatic relations with the Vatican, kidnapping of David S. Dodge in Lebanon, International Population Assistance program, spread of communism, persecution of religious minorities, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and Refugee Act reauthorization.
Correspondents include Millicent Fenwick.

F24: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs, Africa
Topics include South Africa and prohibiting importation of Krugerrands (HR 3231).

F25: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs, Asia
Topics include reparations for Japanese-Americans interned during World War II and the Philippines.

F26-27: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs, Central and South America
Topics include U.S. military and economic aid to El Salvador, covert operations in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Ronald Reagan foreign policy proposals, spread of communism, Boland-Zablocki language (HR 2968), Soviet activity in Central America, and Contadora peace plan.

F28: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Aid
Topics include wasteful federal spending, Targeted Development Aid amendment, and cuts in foreign aid programs.

F29: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs, Grenada
Topics include U.S. invasion of Grenada.

F30: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Topics include loans to communist countries, 8.4 billion dollar bailout of IMF, increased funding for IMF, and HR 2957.

F31: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs, Middle East
Topics include Israel, U.S. Marines in Lebanon, and imprisonment of Alvin Levine in Saudi Arabia.

F32: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs, Nuclear Freeze
Topics include arms race, nuclear arms reductions (HR 13), nuclear war, HJ Res. 2, and mutual and verifiable resolution with the Soviet Union.

F33: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs, Soviet Union
Topics include Soviet Jews, risk of war, U.S. and Soviet Union relations, and arms race.

F34: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs, Soviet Union Shooting Down Korean Airliner
Topics include Korean Airlines Flight #7 and U.S. Representative Larry McDonald.
Correspondents include Frank Harbin.

F35: Correspondence, 1983, Foreign Affairs, United Nations
Topics include moving the UN to Moscow.

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