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...part of the federally owned parkland has been hit harder than California's Angeles National Forest, 693,000 acres of rugged, thickly wooded wilderness in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Los Angeles. The forest has long been a catch basin for urban crime. Says Administrative Officer Roger Fischer of the U.S. Forest Service: "It's the biggest dumping ground for dead bodies and stolen vehicles I've ever seen." During the first five months of the year, authorities reported eleven rapes, 27 aggravated assaults, 66 burglaries and 139 thefts and robberies, including 14 stolen cars...
...country. uch schemes are not pipe dreams: South Dakota earlier this year agreed to sell 50,000 acre-ft. of Missouri River water to a San Francisco-based consortium, Energy Transport Systems Inc., which plans to pump the water 260 miles to the coalfields of the Powder River Basin near Gillette, Wyo. Coal slurry would then be moved through conduits to power plants in the South...
...that rather than sell the water, a far better tactic would be to use it for their own industrial development, perhaps even to lure back some of the firms that have fled to dryer pastures. As Wisconsin's Dreyfus said, "The only water that leaves the Great Lakes basin should be in cans, mixed with hops, barley and malt." But while such a political position may play well in Milwaukee, it raises a far more serious question in what could become an increasingly shrill national debate: Should any single state, or group of states, be able...
...been seated. Two camera crews stumbled in the aisles as the chunky man with the healthy California tan took his place. And on the 3½-hr. flight, he conducted impromptu diplomacy, listening as Seaga urged faster progress on Reagan's plan for aid to the Caribbean Basin...
...President is certain to push for increased U.S. aid and investment, as well as for greater access to U.S. markets under the aegis of the Reagan Administration's Caribbean Basin development plan. But even with such help, he faces an uphill battle to improve economic prospects in the Dominican Republic...