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...good side is clearly visible. Last week the Administration scraped together $200 million in special aid to help rebuild areas damaged by riots. Despite fears that John Mitchell, the seemingly conservative Attorney General, would go slow on civil rights, he has moved the Justice Department vigorously into new areas. Last February the department went to court to force Houston to push integration more effectively in the South's biggest school district; last month it filed suit in Chicago to stop real estate operators from selling property at higher rates to Negroes than to whites...
...report frequent condemnation of apathy and general slackness. There is also the tremendous death toll on the battlefield. In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, Vo Nguyen Giap, was asked if the American claim that he had "lost a half a million men" was correct. "That's quite exact," answered Giap without batting...
...commission on pesticides. Although federal regulatory legislation governing labeling and registration is on the books, it has rarely been enforced. There has not been a criminal prosecution under this statute for 13 years. As a result, the chemical industry, which annually produces 1.05 billion pounds of pesticides (value: $787 million) continues to be secretive about registration data...
...Michigan coho salmon infected by pesticide residue. But no one knows how much of the fish plucked from U.S. lakes daily by commercial and sport fishermen is contaminated. A classic example is Clear Lake, Calif., where DDT (at the minuscule proportion of two one-hundredths of a part per million parts of water) was used to kill off a troublesome, lake-hatching insect. As a result, plankton accumulated DDT residues at five parts per million; fatty tissue of fish feeding on lake-bottom life was found to contain several hundred to 2,000 parts of DDT per million; grebes...
...outlays and by the spending of 20,000 fedayeen in the country and 17,000 Iraqui, 7,000 Saudi and 5,000 Syrian troops now stationed there, Jordan's economy is actually in better shape than before the war. Jordan's dollar reserves are a healthy $300 million. But tourist receipts are down to a third of pre-1967 figures, and agricultural production has dropped with the loss of the West Bank. Israeli analysts sum up Jordan's economy as "financially good, but stagnant in terms of development...