Word: controls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mutual benefit of this arrangement is clear. Says James H. Rademacher, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers: "I could buy every ingredient in Nixon's package if Congress retained its control. I look at that proposed board of directors, and I see money signs in their eyeballs. These guys would be interested in only one thing-a self-supporting operation, and public service would be sacrificed every time...
Richard Nixon established the Environmental Quality Council, a Cabinet-level advisory group designed to coordinate governmental action against environmental decay at all levels, create new proposals to control pollution, and foresee problems. Dr. Lee DuBridge, Nixon's science adviser and the executive secretary of the council, indicated that initial areas of specific concern may be air pollution caused by auto exhausts, and the dangers of pesticides such as DDT. Undoubtedly the council will also concern itself with establishing basic environmental policies. If the new group can fulfill its mandate and win congressional cooperation, progressive national legislation controlling pollution will...
...merely to foster "balanced debate" on such issues as ABM. However, he left no doubt as to where the committee would stand on the ABM. Charging that the opposition proposed a "one-sided United States moratorium" on defense-missile systems, he ridiculed this as a method for achieving arms-control negotiations...
...they chose is an odd one: a Swedish single-engine aircraft known as the MFI-9B trainer, equipped to hold twelve rockets in pods under its wing. The bag claimed so far has been equally unusual: it includes four MIGs, one Ilyushin 28, two Canberras, a Heron and a control tower, all belonging to the federal government of Nigeria...
...dozen groups of assorted political and business leaders. They told the visiting norteamericanos what they, with local variations, have heard and are likely to hear everywhere. The Latins want more U.S. aid without strings, assured markets and better prices for their exports to the U.S. They want more control over their own resources and over the policies and profits of large U.S. companies that operate in Latin America. Ecuador, in addition, had a specific request: that the U.S. respect its claim to 200 miles of territorial water offshore until Ecuadoreans develop the equipment and know-how to exploit their rich...