Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter was equally blunt. He offered no reassurance that funds for job training, health, welfare, housing, free school lunches and community development would not be reduced in his fiscal 1980 budget, which will be submitted to Congress next month. Said Carter: "I don't think you'll be very happy. I'll just have to make the decisions, and I am prepared to take the consequences." Could they come back for another meeting before the final budget decisions were made? "No," said Jimmy Carter...
...must face a vote of the entire caucus on whether he can remain as chairman of the Africa Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee. So, too, must Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, indicted on bribery and other charges, if he wishes to keep his chairmanship of the Labor, Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee. Similarly, Californians Edward Roybal and Charles Wilson, censured in the Korea scandal, may be able to keep their subcommittee positions...
Even the potentially divisive issue of national health insurance was defused. Senator Ted Kennedy has been forcefully advocating mandatory national health insurance since 1971. But he agreed to play down his opposition to Carter's less ambitious approach if the Administration would reaffirm its commitment to the 1976 party platform's broad goal of a "comprehensive national health insurance system with universal and mandatory coverage" at some unspecified date in the future. One of the dissident resolutions, however, called for immediate enactment of an insurance program. In an effort to blunt that resolution, representatives of Kennedy...
...British environmentalists, the case of California's New River is becoming something of an international scandal. When it crosses into the U.S. from Mexico at the town of Calexico, it is so loaded with filth, ranging from parts of animal carcasses to human feces, that even hard-nosed health officials are sickened by the sight and odor. Says Dr. L. Lee Cottrell, health officer of California's Imperial County: "It may not be the dirtiest river in the country, but I can guarantee you there is none dirtier...
...Cottrell: "Our people here stay away." But he is worried about the illegal aliens who regularly cross the rivers as well as the increasing number of visitors from San Diego, Los Angeles and other areas who come to ride dune buggies in the desert and sometimes -unwittingly-risk their health by wading in the foul water...