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...think that Americans are far more ready to act for environmental quality than public action to date indicates. A survey of state bond elections that we conducted recently indicates that most Americans not only want to clean up but are willing to pay the price. In the last five years, 17.6 million citizens of nine states have voted on state bonding for water-pollution control. A majority in each state and a total of 11.7 million-two out of three-said, in effect, "Yes, tax me more for clean water...
While Nixon's relations with Congress have sometimes been clumsy, he won his toughest congressional battle to date when the Senate narrowly went along with his request for funds to start deployment of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile system. Though he had originally planned to defer tax reform for a while, he was happy to claim some of the credit for the historic tax bill passed by the House last week...
...Muskie, 55, announced that he was tackling the other problem by forming two new groups of advisers. One will be a Washington-based circle of generalists with whom Muskie will meet, perhaps as often as once a week, to help stimulate his thinking and to keep him up to date on a variety of national concerns. The second group will include lawyers, economists and an assortment of professors around the country who will do research and writing chores for him. The purpose, says Ed Muskie, is "to educate Ed Muskie...
Thousands of Soviet and Czechoslovak troops are scheduled on the anniversary date to be on "maneuvers" around Prague and other large cities, obviously poised to intervene in the event that demonstrations get out of control...
Neither a date nor a performer has as yet been chosen for another upcoming concert in the Stadium. This concert will be sponsored by the City of Boston; the proceeds from this concert will help to defray the expenses of "Summerthing," Boston's summertime arts festival...