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...taconite tailings were killing the organisms on which the lake's fish feed. But it was not until last year that Ruckelshaus formally demanded that Reserve present a plan to stop polluting the lake within six months. According to an EPA-sponsored study, one solution would be to dump the taconite inland, but Reserve said no. The mining company offered instead to pipe the taconite directly to the lake bottom, where it would supposedly form a harmless reef. That was not the answer, said Ruckelshaus...
...TOLD ME long stories about his adventures here and there. He'd grown up in Australia and emigrated as soon as he could support himself. It once took a whole coffee hour to tell me how he had rescued five hundred production stills from a garbage dump after he had refused to buy them from a company going out of business. "But I fooled them! I still have them in my room. Next time you come over you can see them. How about tomorrow: there's a good flick on the telly and I can make us some lamb stew...
...suppression and summary expulsion last summer of Palestinian guerrillas who were doing more damage to his kingdom than they were to Israel. Ever since, Jordan has been virtually blockaded by its Arab neighbors. Syria and Iraq barred Jordanian planes from their airspace, and Jordanian farmers have had to dump crops because they were barred from their usual markets in those countries. Shipment of phosphate, Jordan's principal export, was barred by Syria. As a result, Turkey now buys phosphate from Israel. Imported goods are brought in through Jordan's single port of Aqaba. Because the Suez Canal...
...Future Dump Trucks will carry an essay on George Orwell by Garrett Epps; an extract from an oral history of three generations of a Mississippi sharecropper's family, being compiled by Ted Rosengarten; an ethnography of various neighborhoods of Cambridge, by John A. Day; and other topics that occur or are suggested...
Suggestions, letters, critical comments and the like should be addressed to Dump Truck, care of the Crimson, and will be published in succeeding issues...