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...Corps of Engineers. Though tides wash over almost all of the mangrove swamps, developers often neglect to get such a permit; then Matthews sues, sometimes with strange results. In 1970, for instance, the Lutgert Construction Co. started a giant beachfront development involving the dredging and filling of 1.65 million cu. yds. of tidal lands in Naples. Matthews began writing protest letters in all directions and finally got the Corps of Engineers to demand that Lutgert stop its dredging; indeed the Interior Department argued that Lutgert must restore the land to its original state. After Lutgert refused, a federal court fined...
...announced that Tenneco and two other Houston firms (Texas Eastern and Brown & Root) are carrying on negotiations with the Soviet Union for rights to the vast natural-gas fields of central Siberia. The cartel is bargaining for a 25-year deal to transport, in liquid form, some 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas daily -about three times as much as all of New England now uses every 24 hours. U.S. demand for imported natural gas is expected to skyrocket in the near future, since projected needs far outstrip the available supply at home. Final agreement on the deal...
AROUND SAIGON. As Communist artillery continued to pound the besieged city of An Loc north of Saigon, other enemy forces edged closer to the capital itself. Fighting broke out near Cu Chi, an ARVN headquarters astride the "Saigon corridor" between Cambodia and the capital, and enemy troops briefly occupied the nearby village of Trung Lap, only 20 miles from Saigon. At week's end, rocket teams were reported to have slipped into positions north and south of the tense capital...
Terry's only regret in leaving Phoenix was in having to leave behind his Custom Street Machine. "She was beautiful. A maroon falcon sprint jacked up in the back, with meats, and a 427 cu. in. hemi-under-glass mounted in the ashtray...
...radio looks ugly but costs only 90, com plete with an earplug. In Africa, Papanek and another student sought a cheap means of preserving food. Their solution: a "cooling unit" insulated by walls of native fiber. It works for twelve hours on 20 minutes of cranking, holds 4.5 cu. ft. of food and costs less than $6. Thousands of other simple products -inexpensive stoves, water pumps, oil lamps-beg to be designed...