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...principle is expected until the talks reconvene next fall in Helsinki, site of last winter's preliminary SALT meetings. Both sides have compelling reasons for wanting an early agreement. Just as the Nixon Administration is under pressure to reallocate Government spending, the Soviet leaders would doubtless like to divert money from nuclear arms and into industrial projects that would help snap the Russian economy out of a severe slump...
...heart of the scheme is a 43-mile-long canal that will carry 4.1 million acre-feet* of water per year from the Sacramento River and divert it around the Delta-a huge, fertile area of meandering waterways near San Francisco that is irrigated by the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. This water will be pumped through nearly 700 miles of concrete aqueducts to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. The diversion, say engineers, will save much of the river water that now flows through the Delta into San Francisco Bay and is lost to the ocean. All together...
...sect, to which Karami and most Moslems in his Cabinet belong. Now the peasants were angry at becoming pawns in war. Imam Mousa Sadr, religious leader of the Shia, called an effective one-day strike last week that even curtailed operations at Beirut airport and forced foreign jets to divert to Istanbul. The government quickly voted $8,500,000 in relief funds for the refugees, but Mousa Sadr threatened more strikes unless his people and their homes were protected...
...present crises divert the energies of our youth and adult manpower from the badly-needed work on health, employment, environmental, and other domestic problems," Ebert added...
...date the last fighting man would leave the country. I would direct the Congress to extend the voting rights act of 1965 for another ten years. I'd improve the Nixon welfare plan. I would urge legislation providing full employment. I'd call a moratorium on highway construction and divert those funds into the construction of homes and school rooms...