Water Pumping Aims To Save Everglades Park
Four pumping stations now operate in reverse to push water into the Everglades to relieve drought threats to plant life and wildlife in the 1.4 million acre national park. The move tests if the flood control system can carry needed volumes while officials warn it may lower water in nearby agricultural areas as rains are forecast.
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Newcastle
Everglades
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Florida
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Flood Control District
South
G. Edward Dail Jr
Dail
House Vote Drives Road Safety Plan Over Aid Link
The House approved a three part measure requiring states to run traffic safety programs by 1983 or face loss of federal road funds. It also would have Commerce study post 1972 highway needs and boost interstate funds to 3 million dollars for one year starting next July. The 313 to 11 vote set up negotiations with the Senate.
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UPI
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Commerce Department
Senate
Boston Schools Said Warned On Segregation
The Boston Globe reports federal investigators uncovered racial discrimination in the Boston school system and will threaten to withhold 4 million dollars in federal aid unless steps are taken. HEW investigators conducted the probe in Boston a month earlier and gathered evidence to force policy changes before September funding.
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Boston Globe
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HEW
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Filibuster Aimed at Bill On Districting
The Senate agreed to preliminary votes on a reapportionment amendment but opponents reserved the right to a filibuster before a final two thirds vote. Sen. Paul Douglas led opposition while Everett Dirksen pressed for a final vote on a referendum based districting plan.
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Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Ilinois
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D-Il
Dirksen
Rusk defends confidences amid Schlesinger claim
Secretary of State Dean Rusk says Arthur Schlesinger breached confidences by writing about official matters from Kennedy era. Rusk, at a news conference, pledged to let future historians judge actions via presidential libraries and urged colleagues to trust him on confidential dealings. Senators and officials weighed in, with Robert F. Kennedy backing Rusk’s integrity despite the Life magazine piece.
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UPI
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Arthur Schlesinger
John F. Kennedy
Rusk
Schlesinger
Life Magazine
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State Department
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Robert F. Kennedy
Dn.y
Chicago Jails 65 Anti Willis Marchers
Chicago police arrested about 65 integrationists who marched to Mayor Daley’s South Side home to protest school policy. They were charged with failing to disperse and causing a hazard. Dick Gregory led the march and was among those arrested. Daley refused to fire Schools Supt. Willis despite calls to remove him. In Alabama, a Red Cross bloodmobile canceled a stop as 250 Negro workers planned to march for donations. In Americus, 23 pickets protested alleged job discrimination at a supermarket amid police action. Demonstrators in Atlanta urged broader exposure of the movement, and a dusk march to the county courthouse proceeded with state trooper guards. Dr. King’s Philadelphia meeting was broken up by a bomb threat at a hotel. no bomb found. Louisiana Governor McKeithen said racial trouble in Bogalusa appears over and warned of guarding against future clashes.
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Richard .J. Daley
Dick Gregory
Howard Pierson
Benjamin C. Willis
Willis
Daley
Board of Education
Greensboro
Ala
Red Cross
Americus
Carl Sanders
Georgia
Sanders
Afblanta
Louisiana
John J. McKeithen
Bogalusa
Unit To Pool Data On Gang Slayings
In Boston a central clearing agency will coordinate information on 24 unsolved gangland slayings in Greater Boston over 17 months. Plans will be drawn up at a regional law enforcement meeting August 17 at the Commonwealth Armory. A similar office already tracks the stranglings of Greater Boston women.
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UPS
Greater Boston
Massachusetts
Commonwealth Armory
Attorney General’s Office
Ford Shuns Squabble With LBJ and Viet Policy
Rep. Gerald Ford defends his stance on Vietnam and refuses to engage with President Johnson in a public clash. He says he supports Johnson’s firmness against communism and criticizes leaks from within the President’s party while leading the GOP’s minority efforts in the House. Ford asserts Republicans back strong Southeast Asia policy despite a Democratic majority and scrutiny of intra party dynamics.
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Gerald R. Ford
Radiotelevision Gallery
Rayburn
Donnybrook
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Peking
Moscow
Ford
Johnson
Texas
White House
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Southeast Asia
House
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Republican Congress
House GOP Leader Battling for Survival
Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan faces leadership pressures amid criticism from President Johnson. Ford expresses calm, stating he is not angry as the public dispute unfolds and signals continued commitment to party duties.
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Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
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Frank Eleazer
Washington
UPS
Gerald R. Ford
R-Mich
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