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...hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, New York's Senator Robert F. Kennedy echoed earlier pleas that the Administration strengthen its pending safety legislation and push up the deadline by which manufacturers would have to meet safety standards from the 1970 to the 1968 models. A persistent critic of Detroit's safety record, Kennedy pointed out that astronauts and test pilots undergo much greater shocks than do people in many auto accidents-and survive. He asked the Government to force automakers to do something about protecting passengers from the "second collision" when they slam into...
...President and the Prime Minister had much to talk about. President Johnson hoped to help strengthen India so that it can take its place along with Japan as a bulwark against Chinese Communist expansion in Asia. In the talks, he would gently insist that India must take steps to control its population growth, revamp its outmoded agricultural methods, and find some modus vivendi with Pakistan so that the two bitter foes do not expend their economic resources arming against each other...
...results of the study seemed to strengthen Evans' argument, though other geologists feel that the cause must be something more than mere lubrication of the fracture surfaces. Both the frequency and intensity of quakes diminished dramatically as less water was pumped down the well. Furthermore, the study established that the epicenters of the quakes were located within only a mile of the well and the quake centers themselves were at 12,000 ft.-close to the bottom of the suspect well, where an earth fault was also found. The Colorado earthquakes and the Army's disposal of waste...
...NIGERIA Volunteers will strengthen the existing programs of the four regional ministries and the Federal Ministry of Health in the fields of public health, preventive medicine and health education at the village level...
...abroad, the government devised a new system of capital-investment grants and formed a commission to promote mergers among companies that are too small to compete on an international scale. If these tonics fail, Whitehall will prescribe stronger medicine. "I repeat," said Wilson, "that whatever measures are needed to strengthen our balance of payments and keep sterling strong will be taken...