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...biggest and costliest ($1.6 billion) enterprises ever undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now being challenged by a lawsuit. The Environmental Defense Fund and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which stands to lose business to the waterway, charge that the corps extended the width of the channel from 170 ft. to 300 ft. without proper authorization. The corps told a congressional committee in 1951 that it had no intention of widening the waterway and acknowledged that such a change would require congressional approval. Yet the engineers later proceeded to widen the waterway without clearly stated authorization...
...Crimson hosts Brown tomorrow afternoon at the Walter Brown Arena. The game will be televised locally on Channel 7, starting at 2 p.m. The Bruins will probably bring their outrageously clever pep band to the contest, in hope of inspiring their second victory over Harvard this season. SCORE BY PERIODS HARVARD 0 1 2 -- 3 NORTHEASTERN...
Williams' plot is a 400-acre island that was created when Hurricane Beulah changed the course of the Rio Grande in 1967. Because the island is south of the main river channel, the U.S. decided that the land was Mexican territory. Mexico, however, refused to accept ownership. So Williams bought the island from Mexican citizens for $400,000. By his reckoning, the 19th century Mexican treaties of Iguala and Guadalupe pave the warpath for him: they give Cherokee Indians the right to establish a nation...
Thanks, Tony. A special highlight tonight -- the Minnesota Vikings will face the Dallas Cowboys at 8:30. Then tomorrow night there will be an NBA game on channel 7 at 11:30 p.m. Saturday you can see the Bruins skating against the Toronto Maple Leafs at 8:00 p.m. That's all, back to you, Tony...
...McNulty, who was living on welfare in Oakland, Calif., won $128,410 in the Irish Sweepstakes. When he discovered that the Government expected to be paid about $35,000 in taxes on his winnings, he deposited his windfall in a bank on the island of Jersey in the English Channel. McNulty figured that money not brought into the U.S. could not be taxed...