This Day In 1970's History: Friday January 5, 1979
- The White House restored some of the funds dropped from the proposed education budget in response to pleas from education groups. The revised figures reflect requests for bigger appropriations for college scholarships and student loans.
The administration's aid to cities with high jobless rates would be boosted with a $250 million funding it will request from Congress for the Supplemental Fiscal Assistance program in the current fiscal year. The administration also plans to ask Congress for an additional $150 million for the next fiscal year. [New York Times]
- Opponents of a PCB dump proposed in North Carolina spoke for seven and a half hours at a hearing to representatives of the state and the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The citizens of the small farming community of Warrenton said that they do not want "another Love Canal," referring to the health problems caused by the burial of polychlorinated biphenyls in a development near Niagara Falls, N.Y. [New York Times]
- A paralyzed prisoner won a $518,000 damage award in an out-of court settlement in Virginia, the largest ever awarded to a prison inmate in this country, according to the Civil Liberties Union, which represented the prisoner, Henry Tucker. [New York Times]
- All federal agencies must make an "environmental review" of all their actions that might affect the "global commons," such as the oceans, the atmosphere and Antarctica, under an executive order. [New York Times]
- Chinese soldiers and fighter planes have been moved to China's border with Vietnam, Carter administration officials said, describing the maneuver as an indication of Peking's growing concern over the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. Tanks and heavy artillery were said to have accompanied the troops. China apparently has decided that it can do little to halt the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, beyond supporting Cambodia's call for a meeting of the Security Council of the United Nations. That the support would be forthcoming was indicated by Deputy Prime Minister Teng Hsiao-ping in an interview in Peking.
Cambodia is locked in a "life or death struggle" against Vietnamese invaders on five fronts, Prime Minister Poi Pot said in a statement broadcast by the Phnom Penh radio and it appears that Cambodia is shifting to guerrilla warfare. [New York Times]
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