NATO Conference on Cities Prompts Urban Focus in Indiana
NATO plans a four day Conference on Cities in Indianapolis May 25 drawing 350 architects planners and officials from 15 member countries. Sessions cover environment housing transportation health and local government while Nixon may open the meeting and CCMS coordinates cross border urban research and policy.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Indianpolis
Indiana
NATO
Secretary of Housing
George Romney
New York
John Lindsay
Harvey Perloff
Aline Saarinen
William Ruckelshaus
Environmental Protection Agency
Nixon
Committee On the Challenges of Modern Society
CCMS
North Atlantic Council
Religion in America Churches Damned If They Do Or Don’t
A 1970 analysis shows Americans gave about 8.2 billion to religious institutions, up 3.5 percent from 1969, while inflation cut dollar buying power by 5.3 percent. Giving to religion trails growth in personal income and total philanthropy, with churches receiving less than 45 percent of national philanthropy and facing declines in membership and attendance. Some blame church involvement in social justice, others fault insufficient human welfare efforts.
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Money
America Association of Fund- Raising Counsels Inc
Giving USA
Just Out
America
USA
Pollution at sea endangers U S shorelines says Senate hearing
Senate hearings in Rehoboth Beach warn that waters off New Jersey Delaware and Maryland coasts are growing murky due to sewage sludge dumping near Cape May. Cities including Camden New Jersey and Philadelphia are named among dumpers with 48 million tons of solid waste and up to 5000 tons of mercury dumped along the U S shoreline in 1970.
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Senate Air and Water Pollution
Rehoboth Beach
Del
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Cape May
N J
Camden
N.J
Philadelphia
Oceans” Magazine
U.S
Congress
Robert Cushman Murphy
Oceana
Cushman
Long Island Sound
Mediterranean
Italy
Atlantic
America
Britain In Common Market Would Bug Soviets
The piece argues Soviet strategic focus may shift to British Common Market entry and a European defense bloc. It discusses potential Soviet moves on Berlin and Ostpolitik, and the idea of a British French nuclear partnership within NATO as a deterrent to Soviet influence.
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Britain
Berlin
Willy Brandt
Ostpolitik
Edward Heath
Georges Pompidou
Heath
Geoffrey Rippon
NATO
Europe
France
United States
Nixon
U.S
Mail Bag Suggests Receipt For OEO Foundation Project
A dated note outlines a dubious scheme to skim funds from an OEO foundation project. It describes starting with one foundation, creating a biased board, shipping a large proposal to Washington, and gaining administrative fees while promising donor and academic gains.
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OEO Foundation
Washington
Governor Moore and the News of Official Truth
A satirical critique questions whether West Virginia Governor Arch Moore seeks to spread official good news at the expense of broader press truth. The piece mocks persistent praise, likening it to a push for official truth and urging caution about state controlled messaging.
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Moore
Lesse
Virginia
La-De-Da
Arch Moore
Raleigh County
West
Voters to decide 198.5 million quake bond in Los Angeles
Los Angeles voters will cast ballots on May 25 to fund replacement and seismic upgrading of 96 quake damaged school buildings. The measure aims to repair freeways and streets, with estimates of 15 million for freeways and 18 million for local roads. The piece notes the NRC findings on unpredictable ground motion and urges strict building codes.
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Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
U. S
Los Angelenos
California
Sylmar-San Fernando Mission Hills
State Highway Commission
San Fernando
John V. Tunney
Calif
U. S. Geological Survey
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Research Council
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Daniel P. Moynihan
M.C
General Motors
Business Week
GM II
Detroit
Pennsylvania Banking and Trust.Co
R.L.W
Vietnam
Louis Cassels
William B. Dickinson Jr
Rachel Carson
Miss Carson
Rehoboth
Phil Newsom
UPI
Soviet Union
Leonid J. Brezhnev
Kremlin
Karlovy Vary
Czechoslovakia
Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Mike Mansfield
Lik
NEA
Marjorie Burns
President Nixon
Richard L. Worsnop
NRC
San Francisco
San Diego Zoo
San Diego
Raleigh
Register
Beckley
Newspapers Corporation
Prince St
Rae aSng
W. Va
Hinton
All Deane Beckley
John Hodel
United Press International
National
Ward-Griffith Company, Inc
Chicago
Atlanta
Boston
Charlotte
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
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