This Day In 1970's History: Sunday February 11, 1979
- A battle between Congress and the administration was predicted by key members of the House and Senate if President Carter proceeds with a pending proposal to strip the Army Corps of Engineers of its authority to plan and economically justify billions of dollars worth of water projects. The proposal is expected to be submitted soon to Congress, where the corps has powerful supporters. [New York Times]
- Millions of Mexicans are successors to the European immigrants who came to the United States nearly a century ago and much for the same reasons, but with a big exception -- most of them are here illegally. Their future is perhaps the touchiest issue that President Carter and President Jose Lopez Portillo of Mexico will discuss in Mexico City this week. [New York Times]
- "A fresh examination" of the conditions under which people charged with serious crimes are released on bail has been called for by Chief Justice Warren Burger. There has been a "startling increase" in the number of new crimes committed by people who have been freed on bail, the Chief Justice told members of the American Bar Association at a meeting in Atlanta. [New York Times]
- Reform of Alabama's harsh prison conditions has been started by Gov. Fob James Jr. At a meeting in Montgomery last week with federal district judge Frank Johnson, who in 1976 declared the prison conditions unconstitutional, Governor James promised to make changes that his predecessor, George Wallace, and Wallace appointees to the State Board of Corrections refused to make. The judge put Mr. James in charge of the prisons and stripped the corrections board of its duties. [New York Times]
- A union member was killed in a clash between striking farm workers and non-strikers in California's Imperial Valley. As the strike grew increasingly violent, growers asked Gov. Jerry Brown to call out the National Guard. [New York Times]
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