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...House aide: "What he'll do is sit down with a batch of polls that tell him just where he stands. If he thinks it's going to be tight and that Agnew might sink him, that's the end of Agnew. Hell, he'd dump David Eisenhower under those circumstances...
President Nixon last December seized on the 1899 Refuse Act as a way to regulate the discharge of industrial wastes into U.S. waters. The act stipulates that persons and corporations shall not dump wastes into navigable waterways without first obtaining permits. To get permits, they would have to comply with stiff guidelines on dumping which were to be set down by the Environmental Protection Agency. Last week the EPA threw in the sponge; there will be no national guidelines. Instead, said a terse EPA memorandum, regional officials will set their own standards...
...neutral against President Thieu. His regime has severe corruption problems, and he has thrown some of his most prominent political opponents, not necessarily Communists, into jail. But his government is fairly effective and has shown remarkable staying power. It is not up to the U.S. to try to "dump" Thieu...
...beaches are swept by a "red tide" of tiny organisms that redden the sea, give swimmers rashes and threaten the shore area's ecology and economy. Health officials trace this phenomenon to the "dead sea" outside New York Harbor, a region devoid of marine life where barges routinely dump the city's garbage and sludge (treated sewage). To worsen matters. New Jersey itself dumps sludge offshore, and so does Pennsylvania...
...move as far out as the continental shelf-in some places 100 miles offshore. The bill poses some complex problems. It may cost sludge-barge operators more than $50 million a year for oceangoing tugs and crews. It will not stop New York City and Philadelphia from continuing to dump their own muck into New Jersey waters. Nor will Cahill's suggested limit help the Atlantic, which is already partially polluted. Still, his move is likely to end a grim impasse and even clean up some filthy beaches. As he put it: "We must realize that...