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Under the highly specific agreement, Soviet scientists will help American experts probe the air-pollution problems of St. Louis and then do the same in Leningrad. The water pollution of Lake Tahoe will be compared with that of Siberia's Lake Baikal. The capability of both nations to predict earth quakes will be tested along California's San Andreas Fault and in Tadzhikistan's Pamir Mountains. The murky waters of the Delaware and Potomac rivers will be analyzed, along with those of two Soviet rivers yet to be designated. More broadly, the general urban environmental problems...
Purcell's gingerly approach apparently stems from the fact that he faces a tough re-election fight in Texas and is not sure how his constituents view the issue. The ineptness of his probe has taken some steam out of other congressional groups interested in examining the deal. A subcommittee of the House Government Operations Committee, with far more expertise, has been waiting to dig deeper into the potential conflict-of-interest situation...
Newspaper post-mortems of the Saturday routs usually concern themselves solely with the victor, while the loser of the "no-contest" contest is rapidly forgotten. The omission is significant, for it seems to indicate an unwillingness to probe why it is necessary to run up such absurd scores...
...Pentagon, the Army advised 25 older generals last week that they must take early retirement. The Administration is still waiting (after three months) for the Senate to confirm General Creighton Abrams as its new Chief of Staff. The Senate Armed Services Committee has not yet finished its probe into the question of whether Abrams, while serving as U.S. commander in Viet Nam, knew that his Air Force chief, General John Lavelle, had permitted 23 unauthorized bombing raids over North Viet...
Despite the thoroughness and expertise of the team at Tan Son Nhut, there are occasionally partial remains that are impossible to identify positively. In these infrequent cases, despite continuing efforts at considerable risk to probe sites where American soldiers are believed or known to have been killed, complete recovery and final identification must wait until the cessation of hostilities...