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President Nixon surprised and delighted conservationists last week by halting construction of the controversial Cross-Florida Barge Canal. About a third of the 107-mile-long waterway has already been built across northern Florida by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Cost to date: $50 million, a great deal of money to go down the drain. But stopping the project. Nixon said, "will prevent a past mistake from causing permanent damage...
Conservationists never saw the canal as anything but a huge environmental blunder (TIME, April 13). By connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the 9-ft.-deep waterway would have saved shippers a 600-mile journey around Florida. But, as Nixon's Council on Environmental Quality noted, its construction would have inundated the Oklawaha River basin, a unique and beautiful area abounding in wildlife. Critics also charged that the canal would pollute nearby ground-water supplies and they insisted that the locks would be too small to permit profitable traffic loads...
...long as the oil supplies of the Middle East seemed almost inexhaustible, consuming countries usually enjoyed a buyers' market. And Western oil companies kept prices low by playing one oil-producing nation off against another. Lately, an upsurge in demand, the closing of the Suez Canal and a rupture in the Trans-Arabian Pipeline have all but turned the market upside down. Today the sellers have more power than ever before. Oil prices are sure to rise, and negotiations began in Teheran last week to determine how high they will...
...When I was in the Panama Canal Zone (Ft. Gulick), I met many North Americans...
...quoted in Tsunami, Catholic University, Mar, 1969, cited in Thomas and Marjorie Melville, op. eit., p. 28) All of Guatemala's top colonels are trained by the United States (Castillo Armas was a Fort Leavenworth grad), and all the counter-insurgency Ranger troops are trained at Ft. Gulick, Panama Canal Zone. But then, as the late Ambassador John Mien said as he presented Guatemala's gorillas with a few armored vehicles, grenate launchers, and jet powered helicopters...