Word: nationalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson primarily to defend major U.S. cities. As it turned out, the two installations will be built first, but later, Nixon's proposal calls for 14 ABM bases in all. The system's function has been shifted from the protection of cities to the defense of the nation's nuclear deterrent. Its cost would be at least $1 billion more than the $5.8 billion estimated for the Johnson system, although the first-year cost would be half the $1.8 billion proposed by the Johnson Administration. Actually weapons costs invariably increase so much that probably neither figure represents...
...political leaders, notably Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, are having second thoughts. Strauss, with more than a little hyperbole, has denounced the treaty as a disaster for West Germany, or "a Versailles of cosmic proportions." The most serious German objection, shared by the Japanese, is that a highly industrialized nation needs nuclear know-how to keep abreast of its competitors in modern technology. NPT commits the nuclear powers to help others in the peaceful applications of atomic energy, but there is apprehension that the international inspection teams required by NPT will learn of any technical breakthroughs in nuclear engineering...
...Alaska, Hickel had been closely identified with the oil interests. Prior to his extended and embarrassing confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate Interior Committee, he made such unfortunate observations as: "I think we have had a policy of conservation for conservation's sake." Several Senators and the nation's most potent conservation organizations bitterly opposed Hickel's appointment. In only eight weeks, however, the new Secretary has shown an extraordinary flair for confounding his critics. Michael Mc-Closkey, acting executive director of the powerful Sierra Club, says: "Conservationists remain to be convinced by Hickel, but I think...
...most urgent services Hickel can perform is yet to come-not in the wilderness, but in the nation's cities. He speaks of plans for central-city swimming pools, city hiking trails and more vest-pocket parks. "A great national park is a glorious thing," he says, "but the boy sitting on the steps of a ghetto tenement deserves a place where he can discover that the sky is larger than the little hole he can see between the buildings...
...Newark is the urban prototype," says Rutgers Urbanologist George Sternlieb. "A few years from now it will be Buffalo, Cleveland, St. Louis and Akron, and then it will be every older city in the country." Thirteen percent of Newark's citizens are on welfare. The city led the nation in serious crimes per 100,000 of population in 1967, and violent crime rose 41% in the first nine months of 1968. Double locks are becoming standard in most dwellings. One physician has been mugged so many times he has hired a professional bodyguard...