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...office led him into a number of disagreements with the headmaster. "It was a clash of strong personalities," one student explained. DiCara tried to push reforms which traditionalist BLS was not eager to enact...
...meeting last week was only one of a series in Nixon's campaign to get Congress to enact his reform programs for revenue sharing, executive reorganization and welfare. With a sense of exhilaration noticeable in the White House, the President held four breakfasts for Republican Senators and Representatives. He directed his Cabinet members and top aides to make themselves available for television talk shows and to get their bags ready for cross-country advocacy. He scheduled four trips of his own beginning this month to personally sell his crusade at regional meetings with editors, publishers and broadcasters...
President Nixon aims to change the situation. In his special message on the environment next week, he will propose that Congress enact the U.S.'s first national land-use program. As the idea now stands, the states would assume some of the responsibility for planning now held by local governments. Their first step would be to take an inventory of the most ecologically valuable land (coastal zones, estuaries and major floodplains) and then identify areas that might be affected by such "key facilities" as power plants, airports and highway interchanges. After that, the states would set development standards...
...methods yield materials with a potential market value of $12 a ton. Last week New York City's environmental protection administrator. Je- rome Kretchmer. suggested a way to recycle the 73,000 cars that New Yorkers abandon on the streets each year. He urged the state to enact a law making auto buyers give the state a $ 100 deposit for new cars, auto owners $50 for their present car. Once the cars were junked "in an environmentally acceptable manner," the money would be refunded-the old returnable-bottle scheme, but this time with a deposit worth collecting...
...this necessary "anti-racist racism" does not become an end in itself, justifying a conservative totality. Rather, it opens up revolutionary perspectives. Because he is the most oppressed, he necessarily pursues-not only by a Hegelian ruse of reason-the liberation of all when he rises to enact his own deliverance from oppression. DuBois, Fanon: there is in them recognition that the revolt of the most oppressed constitutes inevitably and at the same time the embodiment and culmination of the revolt of all the oppressed for the abolition of relations of oppression and of racism. This is the source...