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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under federal pressure, the Dade County (Miami) Port Authority has agreed that for three years local authorities may use a single runway already constructed for airline flight training, but only under strict federal supervision to prevent pollution. In addition, the training runway will be closed as soon as another site for the big jetport is found, presumably within three years. While the agreement "affirms the need to conserve our national heritage," said the President, "it does not deny the need for new airport facilities in Florida...
Emmons also confirmed reports that several private corporations were interested in the NASA site, but said that Gov. Sargent's Science and Technology Foundation had not discussed any specific plans for a private takeover of the site. Emmons is one of nine members of the group, which Sargent named to aid him in finding alternate uses for the NASA site...
...weapon of eminent domain has traditionally been used to procure, and often remove, an object that was hindering public progress, such as a private home that lay in the way of a proposed turnpike route or a site for a public building...
...City Manager also said he was interested in the possibility of a "combined development"- including low income housing. government facilities, and private business- over the whole of the 42 acre urban renewal site. Last week, he appointed a task force to study the possibilities for use of the site; the group is currently beginning a series of public meetings on the problem...
...Design School has been the center of controversy in recent months as the Organization for Black Unity focused on the school's Gund Hall construction project as a site of alleged racist hiring practices by Harvard. OBU has demanded that 20 per cent of Harvard's work force be black or "third-world" workers...