Nixon creates Environmental Quality Council and funds pollution fight
President Nixon will fund the water pollution effort with 800 million, override the Budget Bureau, and empower Interior to spend it. Russell E. Train will chair the Environmental Quality Council with Robert Cahn and J. F. MacDonald as members. The group will report annually, starting July 1, and advise on environmental quality and long term programs.
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Nixon
Congress
Interior Department
Russell E. Train
Robert Cahn
J. F. MacDonald
University of California In
Santa Barbara
Litter Cleanup Won Praise Then Frustration Follows
Industrial News Review notes a West Coast brewery launched a massive cleanup along a Portland to coast highway but trash reaccumulated. The piece argues for personal responsibility and conservation beyond project efforts, warning against delegating all duties to government or others.
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Industrial News Review
Portland
Oregon
Pacific Coast
Myrdal on Violence and the Call for Real Reform
Noted social scientist Gunnar Myrdal warns that violence prompts demands for law and order which historically becomes a pretext to avoid essential reforms. He argues genuine change requires addressing underlying social inequities and systemic issues rather than simply restoring order.
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Gunnar Myrdal
United States
Uncle Sam
Philippines
Nixon
Guam
U.S
Russia's Vietnam echoes in Near East entanglement
Washington urges restraint in Vietnam and keeps Israel well armed to offset Soviet overreach in the Near East. The piece argues Moscow is overcommitted, needs to disengage, and the United States should ease tensions while sustaining military support for Israel.
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Washington
Near East
Moscow
Whal
United States
Vietnam
Israel
Soviet Union
Russia
Iran
Britain
France
Nasser
Syria
Suez
Cairo
Alexei Kosygin
London
Paris
Rumblings in Philippines Threaten Marcos Rule
Manila unrest intensifies as student protests turn violent near the presidential palace. Five killed and about 50 wounded as clashes raise doubt on Ferdinand Marcos's ability to stay in office and the future of Philippine democracy.
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L.A
Manila
Philippines
United States
Marcos
Serge Osmena Junior
U.S
Spiro Agnew
Congress
Hitler
Bonnie and Clyde
Father Ortiz
Ateneo
University of the Philippines
Salvador P. Lopez
Presidential Guard
Metrocom
Tuition Grants Stir Debate in Education Policy
The Nixon administration explores a voucher style plan expanding education funding beyond veterans. The Idea would give parents a voucher for their child and allow spending at public or private schools, with political and legal implications debated amid past court challenges to similar schemes.
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Washington
National Observer
Observer
Cambridge
Mass
Center For the Study of Public Policy
Office of Economic Opportunity
Christopher Jencks
Jencks
White House
Nixon
Virginia
Tuition vouchers debate spans politics and schools
The piece contrasts conservative calls for vouchers with liberal skepticism and notes Milton Friedman and Theo dor Sizer as early proponents. It questions potential effects on public schools if parents shift to voucher-funded parochial institutions and hints at the Jencks investigation yielding answers.
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Milton Friedman
University of Chicago
Theodore Sizer
Harvard
Graduate School of Education
Virginia
Jencks
White House
Welcome Letters to the Editor on Public Interest
The Messenger invites brief signed letters on topics of general public interest. Include the writer’s address and telephone number. Only signed letters will be considered for publication. Editors reserve the right to condense any letters.
The Athens Messenger Publication and Delivery Rates
The Messenger Publishing Co lists daily and Sunday edition prices, carrier and mail delivery options, and annual subscription rates for Ohio and West Virginia residents, with separate nationwide mail rates. It notes second class matter status and the Athens address for mail.
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Athens
the Messenger Publishing Company
West Union Street
Ohio
Fred W. Bush
Gordon K. Bush
Charles W. Reamer
Richard R. Paynter
Riday
D&s
D&s Sone Tekaataon
West Virginia
U.S. & Possessions
the Messenger Publishing Co
W. Union St
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