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Governor Francis W. Sargent will propose Tuesday that the Legislature set up a state agency to provide relocation housing for those whose homes have been demolished to make way for state, federal, and municipal construction in Massachusetts...
...proposed, the new housing corporation would be an independent state agency whose seven-member governing board would be appointed by Sargent. A two-thirds majority of the board would make decisions regarding particular uses of eminent domain, but the corporation would generally "respect regional planning guidelines," Albert L. Kramer, urban assistant to Sargent, said yesterday...
...Earth Day, Wednesday, demonstrators will rally at Government Center to present representatives of Mayor White and Governor Sargent with a list of survival demands-including requests for procedures to decrease environmental pollution...
Rallies and Fasts. There were other stirrings on the antiwar front. In Boston, Governor Francis Sargent signed a bizarre bill that had passed the Massachusetts legislature by respectable majorities. The law provides that no Massachusetts serviceman can be compelled to go to a foreign combat zone in the absence of a congressional declaration of war. Three servicemen promptly volunteered to test the new law, which is certain to make an odd footnote to American constitutional history...
...case now and deciding which way to present it to the courts. There will be a number of individuals named along with the state in bringing suit, and presumably these individuals will have immunity from serving in Vietnam as long as the case is being heard. The day after Sargent signed the bill into law, one soldier, Pyt. John Griffin from Holyoke, filed suit to obtain release from orders sending him to Fort Dix, preparatory to going to Vietnam. Lower-level courts refused to hear his case, but he will probably not appeal to the Supreme Court under...