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Amid all the talk of success, it sounded as though the nation's largest city had finally given up all efforts to govern itself and surrendered its key powers to the state. But Mayor Beame didn't see it that way. Said he: "We're not giving up home rule. There is absolutely nothing in the plan that doesn't exist today." After leaving the mystified reporters, the mayor returned to a basement conference room in his executive mansion to brief city officials on the new system. And what had he asked the city officials...
...having gained their wealth by polluting the environment, now wanted to curb pollution and thus keep the nonaligned poor. The 1974 World Population Conference in Bucharest ran into a similar problem. China, which has one of the world's most comprehensive birth-control programs as well as its largest population (more than 800 million), charged that overpopulation was not a real concern for the poor countries. The issue, lectured the Chinese, was the draining away of the world's resources into the hands of a minority of industrial, consumer-oriented countries...
Soon California Institute of Technology's James Whitcomb, Jan Garmany and Don Anderson weighed in with more evidence. In a search of past records, they found a distinct drop in the speed of P waves 3½ years before the 1971 San Fernando quake (58 deaths), the largest in California in recent years. The P waves had returned to their normal velocity a few months before the tremor. Besides providing what amounted to a retroactive prediction of that powerful quake, the Caltech researchers demonstrated that it was primarily the velocity of the P waves, not the S waves, that...
...Leonid Brezhnev to raise more grain for livestock, they set the total grain harvest goal at an overly optimistic level that would have nearly equaled the record 222 million tons achieved in 1973. Even if the present crop reaches only 180 million tons, it still would be the fourth largest Soviet harvest in history. But having allocated so much acreage for grain to be fed to cattle and poultry, Soviet planners now find that they did not have enough left over to comfortably feed the people...
...agency further insisted that Ashland publicly reveal the recipients of all the payments made between 1967 and 1973, when its illegal contributions first came to light. Reluctantly, Ashland earlier this month made public through the SEC a list of domestic and foreign payments totaling $1.2 million. Democrats received the largest cut in the U.S., but some big Republican names were included. Among the larger payments...