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...stop the poisoning of its air and water by industrial plants that often seem to rival Cartoonist Al Capp's highly pungent Skonk Works. They also emphasize the growing pressures on both industry and communities to spend heavily in an effort to speed up the attack. The Gov ernment estimates that 1) U.S. indus try will have to spend ten times its pres ent $100 million annually for treating waste water if it hopes to end industrial pollution of the nation's rivers; 2) communities will have to spend at least another $1 billion a year to halt...
Armed with its harsh new Institutional Act, Brazil's revolutionary gov ernment pressed relentlessly ahead in its war against Communism, corruption and all the other things it finds wrong with Brazil. In Rio, rumors flew that recently returned ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, still sick abed after two weeks of military questioning about his graft-riddled 1956-61 regime, would soon be heading back to exile. In Sao Paulo, erratic ex-President Janio Quadros was called before a military tribunal amid stories that he and scores of others were going to jail for corruption during his wild seven-month regime...
...Pathet Lao boycotted the elec tions. Lacking the substantial flow of men and arms that North Viet Nam has had to divert to the Viet Cong next door, isolated by its refusal to take part in the government, driven back by gov ernment armies it once could lick, the Pathet Lao now controls far less land and 600,000 fewer Laotians than it did in 1962. Last week came yet another setback. The Defense Ministry reported that the Royal Laotian army had killed 80 Communist troops in a battle north of the Plain of Jars...
Young Reformers. One important reason for hope is the emergence of a new generation of reformers in Laotian politics. Calling themselves Les Jeunes Nationalistes, they are mostly professional men who are loyal to Souvanna and who worry about such things as education, health and corruption in gov ernment. Apparently, other Laotians are equally concerned, for the Young Nationalists won twelve of the 16 races they entered in the July elections. Their leader, 37-year-old Finance Minister Sisouk Na Champassak, practices what he preaches. "I have fired the entire customs department," he announced shortly after he took office, adding sardonically...
...week came on the last of four days of debate, when a group of disgruntled Eastern Senators introduced amend ments that would limit the amount of federal money any one farmer could collect. Maryland Democrat Daniel Brewster suggested the ceiling should be $10,000 a year, argued that Gov ernment support money "is actually encouraging big farms to grow more wheat, which is sold to the taxpayers at a profit." His proposal was beaten. Virginia Democrat Willis Robertson offered a proposal to raise the ceiling to $25,000 a year. That was beaten. Delaware Republican John Williams tried...