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...90th probably reached its high-water mark last week on aid to the beleaguered cities: the Senate gave President Johnson most of the money he requested for model cities and rent supplements, while the House of Representatives reversed itself to give belated approval to a two-year, $40 million rat-control measure...
...grudging approval the House gave the rat-control bill is any indication, however, both model cities and rent supplements are still in serious trouble; the House may simply refuse to split the difference with the more generous Senate, as is the usual custom. Deeply embarrassed by editorial reaction to the loutish ribaldry that accompanied the vote against the rat bill in July, some Republicans realized that they had bought themselves a huge political liability-who wants to be for rats and against children?-and welcomed a recount. But there is little indication that the House has, in fact, changed...
Next to the shells, the Marines' biggest complaint is the company they must keep in their bunkers: rats, mosquitoes and flies. "The rats jump right on top of you when you are asleep," says Pfc. Robert Smith, 19. One particularly large rat is named Rockefeller, "because he always gets the best of everything." The standard tour of duty in one of the DMZ camps is 30 days, a brevity that helps make possible the grim humor with which the Marines accept their defensive watch. Atop Major Froncek's bunker stands a six-foot-high handmade catapult, which...
South of the Rat Islands, beneath the grey-green greasy Pacific swells off Alaska and close to the international date line that keeps Thursday from being Friday, an American submersible is missing. Shrouded in a fog bank, the S.S. Robert Louis Stevenson started on her first-and presumably last-underwater cruise on Aug. 10. Ever since, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard have kept five search vessels and a gaggle of aircraft looking for the R.L.S. - to the intense interest of Russian trawlers in the area...
Late last week a magnetometer towed by the U.S.N.S. Silas Bent, a 285-ft.-long floating oceanographic laboratory, transmitted a suspect blip. But more than a score of wrecks litter the ocean floor off the Rat Islands; until a special camera synchronized to a high-powered strobe light can be lowered over the spot, the sea is guarding its secret...