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but there was no mandate to correct the shortcomings. Subsequent efforts to establish security regulations for water systems and treatment plants have gone nowhere, despite support from the Obama and Bush administrations.
• A law requiring chemical plants to develop security plans was enacted in 2007, but it specifically exempts wastewater treatment plants even though they use many of the chemicals regulated under the program. Critics said the law did not do much to make chemical plants safer either, because it didn't give the Department of Homeland Security enough enforcement authority.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Thursday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2014. There are 349 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 16, 1944, during World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower formally assumed command of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in London.
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• On this date:
• In 1547, Ivan IV of Russia (popularly known as "Ivan the Terrible") was crowned Czar.
• In 1883, the U.S. Civil Service Commission was established.
• In 1920, Prohibition began in the United States as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect, one year to the day after its ratification. (It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.)
• In 1935, fugitive gangster Fred Barker and his mother, Kate "Ma" Barker, were killed in a shootout with the FBI at Lake Weir, Fla.
• In 1942, actress Carole Lombard, 33, her mother Elizabeth and 20 other people were killed when their plane crashed near Las Vegas, Nev., while en route to California from a war-bond promotion tour.
• In 1957, three B-52's took off from Castle Air Force Base in California on the first non-stop, round-the-world flight by jet planes, which lasted 45 hours and 19 minutes.
• In 1964, the musical "Hello, Dolly!" opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
• In 1969, two manned Soviet Soyuz spaceships became the first vehicles to dock (Continued on page 26)
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