Senate tightens Farm Aid pay limits amid subsidies row
The Senate backed a 20000 annual cap on cash payouts to farmers for not growing crops, targeting large subsidy recipients such as corporations banks and state holders. Sen Eastland opposed the limit while Sen Smith's amendment drew a tentative path to law as debate hinges on the agricultural appropriation bill for fiscal 1971. The chamber also approved 500 million to expand food stamps and boost rural water and sewerage projects.
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Washington
Senate
James O. Eastland
D. Miss
Sunflower County
Miss
Ralph T. Smith
R-Ill
Public housing to gain air conditioning in Baltimore
Baltimore officials plan air conditioned public housing to curb crime and ease hot nights. City Housing Commissioner Embry says elderly and poor projects will have centralized cooling with tacit federal approval. Police Commissioner Pomerleau supports the plan, noting heat drives people onto streets and that costs rise about 150 dollars per unit.
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Baltimore
Donald D. Ponterleau
Robert C. Embry, Jr
Pomerleau
Embry
City Housing Authority
Pomerelau
Leaded gasoline curb ease in House bill debate
Washington AP. Administration sources say last minute House wording in the Clean Air Bill would block a nationwide lead ban from gasoline by delaying findings based on medical and scientific evidence. Rep. David Satterfield pushed the language, aiming to require more proof before rulemaking. Senate action pending.
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Washington
David Satterfield
Dva
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
National Air Pollution Control Administration
Congress
Senate
Satterfield
Richmond
Ethyl Corp
Dupont
Rogers Says China Key to Peace in Indochina
Secretary of State William P. Rogers said Communist China is the key to Indochina's future and that if Peking would talk sensibly about a settlement the Nixon administration believes a peaceful settlement could come quickly. He warned U S presence in Asia could end if China stopped its belligerence, noted slow progress in improving relations with China, and stressed Thailand Laos Cambodia and South Vietnam must cooperate to maintain independence. Rogers also said the U S will not let commercial disputes with Japan rupture ties and that Okinawa's reversion remains on course. He spoke after discussions with Japanese officials and before traveling to London.
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Tokyo
China
Indochina
William P. Rogers
Peking
Nixon
Rogers
Japan Broadcasting Corp
U.S
Asia
Washington
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Ton
Southeast Asia
South Korea
United States
Okinawa
Japan
Maryland Judges in Political Reform Debate Grows in 1970 Campaign
The 1970 Maryland gubernatorial race centers on removing judges from politics. Gov. Mandel cancels duties for a trip to the Maryland State Bar Association meeting as C Stanley Blair denounces the proposed constitutional amendment shifting court appointments to the governor with Senate consent and senatorial review every decade. Blair warns of politicized courts and critiques Mandel’s lawyer layman commission as a ploy to win backing in Atlantic City.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Marvin Mandel
Maryland State Bar Association
Atlantic City
Mandel
C. Stanley Blair
Blair
Bar Association
General Assembly
Court of Appeals
Court of Special Appeals
State Senate
Senate
RFK's Son Breaks Wrist In Tumble
RFK's son Robert F Kennedy Jr aged 16 fell from a tree about a block from the Kennedy compound in New York Annisport Massachusetts while retrieving a pet falcon. He landed about 20 feet and sustained a right wrist fracture. police transported him to Cape Cod Hospital where the wrist was set.
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RFK
Nyannisport
Mass
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Kennedy
Cape Cod Hospital
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