Billions in applications flood $2 billion public works fund
State and local governments filed 24,997 applications totaling $23.6 billion for a $2 billion federal public works program. Projects include schools bridges libraries and a Bronx Zoo building with winners to be announced in about two weeks.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Ford
Commerce Department
Economic Development Administration
Bronx
New York City
Atlantic City
N.J. Eda
EDA
John W. Eden
Carter
Eden
Senate Public Works Committee
False IDs presented as national problem
The Justice Department advisory panel cited a letter about false identification documents used by criminals. It warned lax issuance enables fraud by smugglers, illegal aliens, fugitives, and white collar criminals, costing the government billions annually. The panel opposed a nationwide ID card.
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Motor Vehicles Department
Richard L. Thornburgh
Hunger strike sparks violence in Mexico City jails
Violence erupted in three Mexico City jails as inmates and guards clashed while a three day hunger strike pressed for parole rights. The International Strike Committee reported broken windows, hospitalizations, and detentions as five year sentence additions for an alleged escape were noted.
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Mexico City
UPI
Ere
Norte
International Strike Committee
Robert Fisher
Omaha
Neb
Mexican Congress
Scientist recalls Soviet nuclear disaster ruin in 1961 trip
Leo Tumerman of the Weizmann Institute says the 1961 Ural area explosion left hundreds of square miles waste with villages and cattle gone, only chimneys remaining. He notes no Soviet report and cites a 1958 Kyshtim blast from a London science magazine report by Zhores Medvedev.
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Rehovoth
Israel
UPI
Soviet Union
Ural Mountains
Leo Tumerman
Weizmann Institute of Science
Tumerman
Tamerman
London
Zhores Medvedev
Kyshtim
Federal intervention debated over Long Beach Alaskan oil terminal
A U.S. Senate hearing examined Sohio's plan to move 500000 barrels daily of Alaskan crude to a Long Beach terminal. California officials voiced pollution concerns while Alaska's senators argued state controls are insufficient. Federal involvement may arise if state delays persist.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Standard Oil Co
Ohio
California
Long Beach
U.S. Senate
Joseph D. Harnett
Sohio
California Air Resources Board
Tom Quinn
Alaska
U.S
Midland
Tex
Midwest
Quinn
Ted Stevens
Panama Canal
Japan
Persian Gulf
United States
Sen
Adlai Stevenson III
Dill
Commerce Committee On Oil and Gas Production and Distribution
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Lompoc
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