COMMENT.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. The author suggests an increase in spending for the war in Vietnam will detract funds from efforts to combat U.S. poverty. The U.S. National Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts reports that state governments have contributed little to conservation water and soil sources. Soviet writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli M. Daniel were arrested by Soviet authorities on charges they published books outside the Soviet Union.