Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many North Tarrytown residents hardly cared: the plant yields about $500,000 in local taxes each year. But Hudson River fishermen and conservationists were angry. So was Burns, who by then had sharpened his major weapon: the long-neglected Refuse Act of 1899, which forbids putting raw wastes into navigable waterways without a permit. Where polluters in the past had been fined up to $2,500 for general violations. Burns discovered that he could legally consider "every time someone opened a valve and discharged wastes into a river as a separate act of pollution." By compounding the penalties...
...machines cause more general damage. Trail bikers litter the landscape with beer cans, pull-top rings, plastic bags, oily rags, empty bottles. Pistol-packing snowmobilers are decimating Alaskan caribou; overhunting is common elsewhere. At Minnesota's tiny, remote Pierz Lake, a reporter counted 67 snowmobiles and 120 fishermen in one winter day. The sportsmen took out 556 Ibs. of medium-sized fishabout a year's production for the lake...
...empty (pop. 430) county of Alpine, Calif., is a pristine wonderland of majestic peaks, verdant pine forests, and crystalline lakes nestled high in the rugged Sierra Nevada. From their isolation its residents have long gazed in amusement at doings of the urbanites below. Tough mountaineers, woodsmen and fishermen all, they have preserved the pioneer purity of their independent existence. Now that existence stands threatened, and by as unlikely a force as could be imagined-the militant homosexuals of the Gay Liberation Front...
...idea was conceived at a G.L.F. symposium last January in Berkeley. Reconnaissance parties of homosexuals disguised as fishermen and tourists were quickly dispatched to Alpine, and returned pronouncing it ripe for electoral conquest. The G.L.F. began stockpiling food, negotiating to buy land in Alpine, and signing up recruits for the exodus-nearly 500 have enlisted so far. In an article in the Los Angeles Free Press, G.L.F. Leader Don Jackson wrote glowingly of "a gay civil service, gay housing erected with funds furnished by the state and federal governments, and the world's first museum of gay arts, sciences...
...inflation rate is currently at least 20%. An expected 50% reduction in rice and rubber exports has helped to drain foreign reserves. The price of rice is rapidly rising, and the next harvest is expected to be 35% lower. The flight of Vietnamese refugees has cost Cambodia its professional fishermen, cutting down the amount of fish available. "Real shortages will begin to develop in the next few months," said a Western diplomat. "I'm just not sure how the government is going to deal with the problem." Though the U.S. has pitched in with...