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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine eastern ones designated by Carter as drought-emergency areas, $1.2 billion may be lost in agriculture and the forest, recreation, food processing, primary metals and chemicals and fishing industries. In Washington, where 25 of the state's 39 counties have been designated disaster areas, the drought could cost $500 million, while a $50 million farm-production loss is predicted in neighboring Idaho...
...represented for twelve years by Brock Adams, Carter's Secretary of Transportation. Among its 243,000 voters are heavy concentrations of minorities and blue collar workers. Though a staunch conservative, Cunningham made unemployment his top issue. He labeled his opponent an "environmental extremist" whose no-growth policies would cost the state jobs. He argued that, by proposing to cut defense spending, Durning would eliminate still more employment...
Sweeping Act. The conference, authorized by Congress at a cost of $3 million, is the latest indication that America's 20 million to 35 million handicapped are the nation's newest civil rights movement. In 1973, following two decades of lobbying plus court rulings against discrimination, Congress passed a sweeping Vocational Rehabilitation Act for the mentally and physically disabled. "No handicapped individual," it proclaimed, "shall be excluded from any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance." An equally sweeping Education for All Handicapped Children Act, which grants all disabled children the right to a free public education, passed...
...million handicapped children-about 12% of all school-age children -only an estimated 40% now receive adequate special education. The rest must be located and placed in what the law calls the "least restrictive educational environment" by September 1978. Schools, already strapped financially, estimate that it costs $2,800 a year to educate each handicapped child, compared with $1,400 for a normal student. Meanwhile, under existing allocations, the Federal Government will underwrite only 5% of the cost of each handicapped pupil's education in 1978; it will slowly increase that...
...Letter. Aficionados of cartoons and soap operas have their typewritten grapevines, as do owners of Pet Rocks, fans of Evelyn Waugh and students of the Kondatrieff wave theory of economics. Circulations range from a few dozen to 430,000, for the 54-year-old Kiplinger Washington Letter; subscriptions cost anywhere from nothing to $3,600 a year, for French Journalist Danielle Hunebelle's International Letter, a monthly economic report...