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...grateful for your interest in clean water and in helping to make the public aware of areas of pollution [Aug. 1]. However, as mayor of the city of Erie, I take exception to your inference that all of Lake Erie is a cesspool. We are a tourist area, and Erie's beaches and boating facilities are open, and have been open for many years. Last year more than three and one-half million people visited Erie's Presque Isle State Park. Sixty lifeguards man eleven beaches on the park. These beaches are tested weekly by the state...
...last week, "I feel the tragedy of the girl's death. That's what I'll always have to live with. But what I don't have to live with are the whispers and innuendoes and falsehoods." Yet in the continued absence of an adequate public explanation from Kennedy about the night when Mary Jo Kopechne died, the whispers and innuendoes refused to fade away. The popular memory may be short, but it generally endures, as Kennedy is unhappily discovering, at least until curiosity about public figures has been satisfied (see TIME ESSAY...
...Transportation, storage and use of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) agents will be severely restricted. Open-air tests will be allowed only if the Secretary of Defense rules them necessary for national security and the Surgeon General determines that they would not be a menace to public health. Congress will have to specifically approve any money to be spent on CBW, and it must be advised at least 30 days before the agents are transported...
...recent years, liberal legislators have urged the creation of a guaranteed-job program. Most of their proposals would combine federal public-service jobs, such as hospital and recreation workers, with a system of tax incentives to private industry to encourage the hiring, training and retraining of unskilled labor...
...some experts think could be reached this year. "If unemployment goes that high," argued Califano, "it's not manpower funds they'll need. It's jobs. The guys who are already trained will be out of work. You can make a case that we need a public-employment program right now." The primary problem is money. The cost of the Government's assuming the role of employer of last resort could be astronomical, far above what a Congress concerned with inflation would accept. Unemployment is now 3.6%, 2,592,000 people. If the rate were...