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Last week the Senate subcommittee on air and water pollution approved a bill sponsored by Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie that would set up an in dependent "Office of Environmental Quality." The Senate has also just unanimously passed a remarkable bill in troduced by Washington Democrat Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, chairman of the Interior Committee. A shrewd politician, Jackson finessed his bill through on the consent calendar, which bypasses floor debate. His "National Environmental Policy Act of 1969" would do no less than...
...only precedent for Jackson's sweeping bill is the Full Employment Act of 1946, which established the framework for a managed economy and created the Council of Economic Advisers. If the Environmental Policy Act becomes law, the result may well affect every imaginable special interest-airlines, highway builders, mining companies, real estate developers. As for the effect on federal agencies, Jackson predicts: "The law will immediately hit the Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear power program by requiring the AEC to curb thermal pollution. It will have an immediate impact on all defense programs-everything from the siting...
...bill that opens all federal policies to challenge might seem doomed in the House, which still has to approve it. But Jackson is undaunted. As a strong supporter of the ABM, he got the Nixon Administration to give qualified endorsement to his bill, and he expects the House to go along. "This bill required months of intricate negotiations," says Jackson. "We're going to get it passed...
...inning. Then the Nationals sent nine men to the plate and scored five runs as San Francisco's Willie McCovey belted the first of two home runs. Even St. Louis Pitcher Steve Carlton, the game's eventual winner, lashed a run-producing double. Detroit's Bill Freehan came back with a homer, but that still left the Americans on the short end of an 8-2 score...
...Joshua Hassan, 53, chief minister of Gibraltar: Lady Daniela Hassan, 48, his Spanish wife; after 24 years of marriage, two children; in Gibraltar. Sir Joshua angered the Rock's mainly Roman Catholic citizenry and embarrassed the British government by getting his divorce with a private member's bill that he rammed through the legislative assembly-all of which may damage his bid for another term in this week's elections...