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The protesting intellectuals particularly criticized the Amazon project that is of most concern to ecologists: a proposed road across the western state of Acre to Pucallpa, Peru, where it would link up with a Peruvian highway that stretches over the Andes to Lima. The highway link would provide Acre with...
Alarm over the Acre proposal, first aired in January, has been so strong that President George Bush reportedly asked Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to clarify whether his government had any plans to finance the highway. Takeshita said Japan had yet to receive a request from Brazil for funding. As...
One of Alaska's treasures -- and a major center of the dispute over oil exploration -- is a park the size of eight Yellowstones. Within this vast preserve, called the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, lies a 1.5 million-acre section of the coastal plain that the oil industry insists has the...
The arboretum's more than 7,000 kinds of trees, shrubs and other plants are scattered throughout its 265 acre area. The hilly terrain hides most of the encroaching suburban buildings, but at the end of one path is a parking lot with graffiti on its back wall. Beyond the...
All this is about as expected, Willey says on the drive home. If he can get all sides to settle on a price, his next job may be more difficult. In its last days, the Reagan Administration stated it had no objections to water marketing (in a memo written by...