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...located in the nearby town of Schiedam. If the SO., level rises above .5 parts per million, the computer sounds an alarm and an electronic map pinpoints the offending plant. If weather conditions indicate a pollution buildup in the area, the computer operator calls the offender and requests a cutback in waste emissions...
...medical institution for which these homes were originally scheduled to be torn down-the Affiliated Hospitals Center (AHC)-will succeed in bettering the deficiencies in local medical care that now plague the Roxbury area. Several months ago, the governing board of the AHC announced that a 46 per cent cutback would be made in its outpatient ambulatory care budget. With this cutback, medical authorities contend, the capacity of community health care in the new hospital is presently reduced to the already inadequate level of care which existing area institutions now maintain. AHC spokesmen have alleged for several months that...
With the new cutback announcement, the authorized U. S. troop ceiling in South Vietnam by May 1971 will be 284,000 compared with a peak of 549,000 in early...
...Marines a unit in search of a mission, but a unit nonetheless. A 1952 law guarantees the Marines three combat divisions and three aircraft wings, and though Marine strength will shrink from its March 1969 level of 317,400 to below 200,000 as part of the general military cutback, the Corps itself will doubtless survive. Having fought heroically in some of the nation's fiercest battles, it has won the admiration of a vast number of Americans as well as powerful friends in Congress. Even if the U.S. in fact ceases to be "the world's policeman...
...some ways the industry is only suffering a temporary lull-though it is not likely to see soon again the triple boom in space, defense and commercial-jet sales that made the late '60s its gravy years. The cutback in Government contracts coincides with the beginning of the end of production runs on the first generation of jet transports. Full production of the wide-bodied airbuses, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed 1011, will not begin until 1972, and Government contracts for such major projects as the B-1A supersonic bomber and a space-shuttle vehicle have...