This Day In 1970's History: Tuesday February 10, 1970
- President Nixon, in his State of the Union message, pledged purification of the environment as the government's major effort of the 1970's. The President sent to Congress his proposal to clean up the air and water and to fight solid waste pollution and build better sewage plants. He also proposed stricter laws against polluters. But no one in the Nixon administration knows how much the entire project of saving America's environment may eventually cost. Part of the program calls for funds to help states and cities fight pollution. Recently, 13 air pollution inspectors and six businessmen in New York City were arrested in a bribery investigation.
The U.S. and Soviet Union signed a two-year cultural exchange treaty which includes cooperation on environmental problems. [CBS]
- Thirty-nine people were killed in an avalanche in Val D'Isere, France. Rescue operations are being hampered due to bad weather. [CBS]
- At Munich, Germany, a bomb was thrown at passengers who were bound for an Israeli airliner. The apparent target was Moshe Dayan's son, who was not hurt. All four Arabs responsible for the incident were captured.
Secretary of State William Rogers is in Tunisia, where thousands of students staged an anti-American demonstration charging the Nixon administration with pro-Israel policies. Rogers canceled his visit to a university. [CBS]
- The Democratic Policy Council urged the Senate to reject Judge G. Harrold Carswell's nomination to the Supreme Court. Council chairman Hubert Humphrey said that any Supreme Court nominee must be devoid of any record of racial bias, intolerance or discrimination. [CBS]
- Liberals applauded Abraham Ribicoff's charge of hypocrisy by the North on school desegregation, but few of them will support an amendment for uniform enforcement of the law. [CBS]
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