Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...some extent, Dayan is also acting out of political necessity. Next month Israel's ruling Labor Party will hold party elections and pick delegates to a convention that must be held before Israel has another national election. Since control of this machinery is essential to any prospective successor to Mrs. Meir, both Dayan and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon are working to secure it. So far, Allon appears to have the party establishment behind him. Dayan therefore is appealing to the party moderates whose strength, he feels, is gradually increasing...
...absence of a restraining force, had previously operated as the vanguard of the student movement. Cambodia/Kent State also opened new lines of communication within universities. For the first time in years, students, faculty and administrators agreed on a major issue. Formalized by new devices like campus ombudsmen and rumor-control centers, the new intimacy strengthened many an institution. LAW-AND-ORDER. The bombers and arsonists have sown genuine fear among students, who generally despise violence as much as anyone else. At the same time, most campuses have promulgated tough rules against unpeaceful dissenters. They have beefed up their security forces...
...virtually pollution-free car by 1975. Henry Ford II told an audience in Chicago that politicians and the press have unfairly labeled automakers as "bad guys" -mainly, he charged, to help win votes and gain circulation. In New Orleans, a Chrysler emissions expert, Charles Heinen, argued against "over-control" of auto exhausts, and said that Americans have been "needlessly frightened" by reports of car-caused smog. Added General Motors President Edward N. Cole: "National efforts to reduce overall air pollution must involve all major sources of pollution-not only motor vehicles but also industrial and electric generating plants, home...
...sample Communism's environmental efforts, TIME Correspondent Burton Pines recently visited Poland's most polluted region: Upper Silesia, a mineral-rich and heavily industrialized area near the Czech border. In 1965, the provincial government decided that unless it strengthened its 15-year-old environmental control program, Upper Silesia was headed for ecological ruin. As a result of ensuing reforms, one environmentalist told Pines, "I think we started fighting pollution in time...
...Washington, Sherman R. Knapp, president of the Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc., denounced "sudden hysteria" over the environmental impact of nuclear power plants. While conceding that the nation's 17 existing "nukes" discharge heat (he said low-level radiation is under control), Knapp declared that "there is not a single case of thermal emission seriously damaging the ecology." He particularly decried conservationists' lawsuits that block the growth of nuclear plants. Those who hinder power generation, Knapp said, only guarantee "ever darkening skies and diminishing amounts of fossil fuel resources-or an even more hazardous environmental threat, insufficient electricity...