Word: council
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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...
...cast of the new regime. The Cabinet is primarily civilian, drawn from the extreme leftist, Pan-Arab intelligentsia; eight of its 24 members belong to the Sudan's Communist Party, the most entrenched in the Arab world. The Cabinet in turn is responsible to a Revolutionary Council of a "Free Officers Front," headed by the man who engineered the coup: Major General (he promoted himself from colonel overnight) Gaafar Mohamed Nimeri, 40, a dour single-minded soldier who received training at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Nimeri had earned his reputation...
...seems, Washington might well take several small to middling unilateral steps demonstrating that the U.S. poses no threat to China and its regime, and that it desires conciliation whenever Peking is ready for it. Says Harvard Sinologist James C. Thomson Jr., a former State Department and National Security Council official: "Why wait for the other man to blink? Why not try winking at him?" Among the many winks-some possible at once, others at a later time-that U.S. China specialists have suggested...
...political entities, whatever their names; that both merit representation in the United Nations; that we would not oppose reconciliation between Taiwan and the mainland if it should come; but that in the meantime the unit ruled from Peking is obviously the country assigned the permanent seat in the Security Council...
Responsibility for the attachment of this statement to a fund-raising appeal rests presumably with the chairman and council of the Graduate Society, but also with ex-officio councillors Pusey, Ford, Price and Elder. Alumni who respond to the appeal should take pains to repudiate both the inappropriate political maneuvering, and the content of the statement with which, by virtue of their contribution, they would otherwise be associated. Sarah Kafatou...