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...crimes. He also is accused of the rape-murder-mutilations of seven girls who had disappeared over the past year, including a Fresno State coed whose head had been found on a deserted mountainside in August 1972 and a college girl whose skull the police unearthed in the backyard of Kemper's mother's home after the son showed them where...
...endangered species is another man's backyard pest. That modern-age anomaly is the crux of a dispute between the National Audubon Society and Louisiana's Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wild Life. Arguing that a surplus of alligators was eating up such income-producing wildlife as muskrats and waterfowl, Louisiana reopened the swamplands in Cameron Parish to hunters last fall after an eight-year ban. In 13 days, 1,347 alligator hides were turned over to state authorities to be auctioned off to private businessmen. The Audubon Society, which long ago branched out from birds...
More and more Congressmen and businessmen go about cursing the darkening clouds of the energy crisis, yet nothing has been done to light a candle of hope that sits in the nation's backyard -the Alaska pipeline. The oil reserves under Alaska's North Slope remain as frozen in controversy today as they were when the 789-mile pipeline to the ice-free port of Valdez was first proposed in 1969. The line has been stalled in part by environmental issues. Tanker traffic would almost certainly result in oil spillage and leaks from the pipeline-it would traverse...
Just this past weekend, the CRNC held one of its "Student Fieldman Schools" right here in the same backyard where SDS staged its National Convention on Racism last Spring...
...going rapidly. In Miami, Navy Lieut. Commander Ralph Gaither stepped off the plane into his family's arms after 7½ years. Later, his sister Shirley reported: "He wants to buy a sailboat, but his fondest desire is to drink a can of beer under a backyard tree...