President proposes pollution plan
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon proposed Tuesday an ambitious plan to clean America's skies and waters, rid the countryside of junk, open up more park lands and develop within five years a virtually pollution-free automobile.
Except for his $10 billion, five-year program of federal-state efforts to curb water pollution, the President gave no estimate of the total cost of his program. In any case, some Democrats promptly said Nixon didn't go far enough.
The President made clear in a lengthy message to Congress on the environment that everyone—government, industry and individuals—will have to pay
Ten Kansas university students, six from KU, were placed on three-year probation Monday following their conviction for the possession and sale of the hallucinogenic drug, LSD.
Ten students convicted of drug sale
The decision came from the U.S. District Court under the Federal Youth Corrections Act. The youths are being held in county jail pending the beginning of their sentences.
One requirement placed on the youths during their probationary period will be that they don't use or deal in any narcotics or drugs and refrain from associating with persons who do, said Judges Arthur J. Stanley Jr. and Wesley E. Brown, the presiding judges for the cases.
Calley hearings continue; Laird may be called
FT. BENNING, Ga. (UPI)—The defense tried without success for the second day Tuesday to get the Army to say that command influence—including action by President Nixon—played a role in bringing murder charges against Lt. William L. Calley Jr. for the alleged Mai Lail massacre.
Tuesday's hearings concluded at 3:40 p.m. CST, with indications the sessions will last at least until Thursday. Involved is a defense motion asking that the charges against Calley be dropped on grounds that command influence has erased any chance he had to get a fair court-martial.
the price for generations of neglect of the country's once seemingly endless natural resources,
The court said it would rule Thursday on defense requests to call Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor and Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland in the case. It said a ruling on the motion to dismiss the charges also might be issued at that time.
The final witness Tuesday was the commanding officer of Calley's brigade, who denied from the witness stand that he was influenced by any outside source in recommending Calley be prosecuted.
As an example, Nixon proposed requiring cities to charge industries fees for treating their waste products.
Lt. Col. Frank L. Garrison gave the testimony during hearings on a defense motion to drop the charges against Calley on the grounds of command influence.
At the time the charges were brought against Calley, Garrison was reviewing officer of the Calley investigation and recommended the lieutenant be court-martialed.
Calley is charged with the premeditated murder of 102 Vietnamese civilians on March 16, 1968, the day his infantry platoon swept through the village of My Lai.
And for consumers, on the theory that a car's price ought to include the cost not only of its manufacture but of its disposal, Nixon suggested a federal bounty, financed by an added excise tax on new cars, to encourage prompt scrapping of automobiles now abandoned as rusting eyesores.
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Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, welcomed what he called Nixon's support for proposals he made last month. The Senate's leading champion of controlling pollution, Muskie expressed disappointment that Nixon did not propose attacks on trucks, buses,
and aircraft and other nonautomotive forms of transportation
Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., said Nixon's plan "in terms of dollars, falls short of the broad-ranging programs that are promised." And Republican Sen. Clifford Case of New Jersey said Nixon's initiatives, as many as they are, "are still not enough."
House Democratic leader Carl Albert said Nixon had failed to propose spending as much as the Democrats already had authorized to fight pollution.
The Ford Motor Co. and the institute of Scrap Iron and Steel pledged Their support.
- Federal regulation of fuel composition and additives, as well as exhaust emissions, and required testing for emission in automakers' production models rather than voluntary testing of prototypes.
Nixon told Congress his aim was nothing less than "the rescue of our natural habitat as a place both habitable and hospitable to man."
In all, the President made 23 legislative proposals and ordered
- Establishment of nationwide federal air and water pollution control standards, including for the first time intrastate as well as interstate waters and ocean waters within U.S. boundaries.
14 steps by executive order or administrative action to improve the environment. Among them were other provisions for:
A review of current use of the 750 million acres of federally owned land, with an eye to converting or selling some of it for parks or recreational land, with emphasis on areas close to the crowded cities.
- Research aimed at finding ways to reuse more solid waste materials and make others, especially containers, more easily disposable.
- Violations of these standards would subject industries or cities to maximum court fines of $10,000 a day, and the interior secretary would be authorized to seek emergency injunctions against serious water pollution.
- Tightening of federal controls on emission of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from automobile exhausts, with new curbs on nitrogen oxides by 1973 and particle matter, including lead, by 1975.
- Ordering the U.S. Patent Office to give priority to applications for pollution-control devices.
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