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...criticize the conventional texts. Keenan says he believes the reports are true about SAVAK's infiltration of Iranian universities, but thinks it may be possible to avoid this lack of academic freedom at RSKU. The new university will be located in a relatively isolated area next to a national forest outside Teheran, away from the major urban foci of the spy network, Keenan maintains. And since the RSKU facility will only be utilized for Ph.D. candidates preparing their dissertaition, instruction will be given almost exclusively on a one-to-one basis, rather than in a classroom situation, he says...
...vast tundras of Alaska and in the timberlands and national parks of California, Oregon, Arizona and Utah, forest fires have devoured huge swaths of magnificent territory. Most of the blazes have been started by heat lightning, and many are still out of control. Alaska has lost 1.6 million acres, or 2,500 sq. mi., in the worst destruction since 1971. California, the most scorched after Alaska, has lost more than 288,000 acres, despite the deployment of 10,000 fire fighters...
...most mammoth blaze along the West Coast is in the Los Padres National Forest, just east of California's lovely Big Sur. Roaring on for two weeks, the inferno has consumed 92,200 acres, feeding on miles and miles of vegetation turned bone-dry by a two-year drought. A Forest Service official says the energy ignited in every 1,000 acres of the compacted underbrush is equivalent to that of the "bomb dropped on Hiroshima...
...Foresters have used enormous D9 Caterpillar tractors to help dig a 60-mile fire line around 40% of the blaze. Hoping to squeeze off some of the rest, Al West, an official of the Los Padres National Forest, ordered the construction of an eightmile, 30-to 40-ft.-wide road, cut by eight bulldozers near the fire's northern edge. West wanted to save an additional 25,000 acres of wilderness that forms the Carmel Valley Watershed; the effort failed, and now the water supply for 20,000 people around Monterey is threatened...
...last week, soaking parched reservoirs, saving some thirsty crops and providing water for swimming pools and lawn sprinklers -but no such fortune befell the West and Southwest. There drought stubbornly persisted like a biblical plague, withering corn and wheat, drying up horse and cattle water holes, kindling brush and forest fires (including some 400 in California), and cutting back on water and energy supplies for about 30 million Americans...