Word: rebuilds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delivering 120 new trailers a day, and is still far behind the demand. But the majority of Wilkes-Barre citizens hope one day to repair or rebuild their own houses. Many Wyoming Valley residents are of Polish and Slovak stock. Their hearts are in their homes; to possess a home is to possess everything. And they are the core of the movement to bring the valley back...
Frank Nowak, 43, a maintenance man for the local RCA plant, is lucky because his house is still standing. He figures it will take a $22,000 loan to rebuild it the way it was. Thumbing through an album showing the house before the flood, with its trim lawn and clipped rose garden, Nowak says: "If I get this place fixed up and somebody comes knocking on my door to say urban renewal is going to tear it down, there's going to be a fight...
...Nixon has resisted all attempts to rebuild congressional power over foreign policy. Last November, Congress passed a military authorization bill with a watered-down version of the Mansfield amendment, which simply called for setting a date for the withdrawal of American forces from Viet Nam as soon as the prisoners of war are released. The President signed the bill into law while describing the amendment as being "without binding force or effect...
...Communists obviously meant to rebuild the broken Viet Cong, shat ter Saigon's pacification program and destroy confidence in ARVN-in short, to end the relative peace that the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu has enjoyed ever since U.S. and ARVN troops broke up the Cambodian sanctuaries in 1970. Thus, in Saigon the offensive is not considered to be the "final battle" that Richard Nixon called it last week. Rather, it is beginning to be called the start of the Third Indochina War, succeeding the first war waged against the French in the 1940s...
...railroads' competitors-and the Administration's pending Transportation Assistance Act. Each would provide an immediate transfusion of cash through a Government guarantee of loans. The industry's bill seems preferable because it would provide $5 billion in guarantees for loans that could be used largely to rebuild tracks and yards. The Administration's bill would guarantee $3 billion in loans that could be spent only to buy new rolling stock-hardly the railroads' sole worry. In other respects, both would attack basic problems. The Administration and the industry would permit the railroads to abandon tracks...