Jun 4 1972
From The Space Library
New York Times editorial commented on United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, opening in Stockholm June 5. Conference would not be "the kind of body that can pass laws to reduce the further polluting of air and water, neither is it to be a forum for free-flowing discussion. The first would imply a yielding of national sovereignty not remotely in sight; the second, a gathering of individuals responsible only to themselves, rather than an assembly of official delegations. But their coming together has rightly raised the world's expectations, and there are significant gains that the conference can and should deliver." Conference, without plenary powers, would at-tempt to "pave the way for a worldwide treaty . . . to arrest the polluting of the oceans and to fix criteria for the tolerance of man and his world to certain pollutants, leaving governments to apply those criteria to their own countries" Conference would disappoint if it failed to "set up international machinery, flexible and capable of growth, to establish and expand the interest of the entire international community in the environmental problems of any part of it." (NYT, 6/4/72, 4:14)
Number of visitors taking Kennedy Space Center tours had risen from 47 220 in May 1971 to 72 890 in May 1972, Today reported. Total of 519 000 visitors had taken tour in first five months of 1972; 398 000 had taken tour in same 1971 period. (Today, 6/4/72)
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