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Even as Los Angeles struggled with its auto-emissions problem, word came from Cambridge, Mass., about a more widespread future emissions problem: nitrogen oxides from the SST. During the 1971 debate that led to the cutting off of U.S. Government funds for the supersonic transport, environmentalists had voiced fears that nitrogen oxides in the exhaust of the 1,800-m.p.h. aircraft might weaken the ozone shield that protects the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays. The charge was serious, but was it true? The U.S. Department of Transportation commissioned researchers at the Massachusetts Institute...
...emissions of the Concorde, showed that supersonic exhaust discharges in the general latitude of Paris and New York would deplete ozone by a risky 16% in the Northern Hemisphere. The ozone blanket would also be thinned significantly in the Southern Hemisphere, where the computer had assumed no SST flights...
...afraid that a major use of the B-1 will be to replace the B-52 in Vietnam-like situations," Barrer said. "The B-1 is a super-sonic plane, and will have many of the same environmental effects that the SST would have...
...year House veteran who represents a Newark-area district with a majority of black voters. A lawyer who writes poetry and loves opera, he nevertheless is popular in a tough-talking city where politics is rough. He voted against such technological projects as the ABM and the SST. He succeeded New York's Emanuel Cellar as judiciary chairman last January after Celler was defeated for reelection...
...supporter in Congress, even on the most controversial issues, such as the nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. "The President and I always have had a high identity philosophically," Ford told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil the night of his selection. He favored the SST, opposed busing to integrate schools, refused to cut defense spending and was generally hawkish on the Viet Nam War. In 1970 he led the losing crusade to expel Justice William O. Douglas from the Supreme Court through impeachment. Ford spent ten days in Communist China last year but returned more...