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...billion in new annual federal spending by 1975, plus a one-shot $10 billion program to create public-service jobs for people who cannot find work in the private sector. Of the total, $30 billion consists of proposals to greatly expand federal aid to education, hospital construction, public transit, drug-control programs and the like. The remaining $14 billion represents the cost of a new "national income insurance" plan to aid the poor, replacing the old $1,000 grant. Through a combination of increased Social Security benefits, an expanded food-stamp program and higher public-assistance payments, McGovern aims...
What could the U.S. narcs do about it? Plenty, as it turned out. One evening in February 1971, the acting Tocumen transit chief, Joaquin Him Gonzales, a baseball addict, drove into the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone to see a local game, and the feds pounced. Flown to the U.S. and tried in Dallas, Him is serving a five-year rap for narcotics conspiracy in a Texas jail. Washington has ignored the protests of Panamanian Strongman Omar Torrijos and his brother Mois?...
...Extension of the MBTA subway line out to Fresh Pond or another point near the Alewife Brook Parkway. Traffic studies--largely complete--show that most Mass Ave traffic has at least one endpoint in Cambridge, making extended rapid transit feasible...
...that can be produced. But in the industrialized world, and especially in the U.S., it is possible to envision a policy that would devote a dwindling share of new investments to traditional industry while channeling more into such tasks as cleaning streets, improving education and law enforcement, upgrading mass transit and expanding low-cost medical service. Such a program in the developed nations might cause G.N.P. growth to slow, though not stop, since stethoscopes use less metal than refrigerators do. For that very reason, this program would conserve resources and minimize pollution, and it could result in a truer...
...American voters, it appears, finally have the chance to turn America around. A chance to use our energies and resources for cleaning up our environment, providing health care at a decent price for all, improving mass transit, rebuilding our cities, and achieving peace-rather than for destruction and waste, such as Viet Nam, adventures to the moon and space shuttles...