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...Lewis, one of Reagan's most highly regarded Cabinet members. Her biggest challenge will be to complete the rehabilitation of the air-traffic-control system, which was left in shambles after the controllers' walkout in August 1981. She also has to carry out the new 50-per-gal. increase in the gasoline tax and complete the transfer of the Government-owned Consolidated Rail Corp. to private interests...
...after the nearly inaccessible province it crosses, is being built to carry needed water to Sudan's arid north and to Egypt. The channel could irrigate some 600,000 acres of land by diverting 30% of the flow of the White Nile River, as much as 5.2 billion gal. of water a day, around the Sudd, a vast swampland in southern Sudan...
...economists were also dubious about a White House-backed plan that would raise the federal gasoline tax by 5? per gal., so that the revenues raised could be used to put 320,000 people to work repairing highways, bridges and mass-transit systems. While agreeing that such restoration projects were needed, the board members pointed out that the increased tax would probably reduce consumer spending and might destroy more jobs than it created. Said Heller: "This is an anti-jobs bill...
During the past six years, the Army has spent about $50 million in an attempt to tidy up the area. An accelerated evaporation process has shrunk the murky green liquid in one lagoon from 200 million gal. to 55 million gal. The water, however, is still so polluted it occasionally kills birds. To scare them off, the Army in 1976 put flashing lights on barges and ringed the lake with Zong guns, which make siren and gunshot noises. It also built a giant barricade of bentonite slurry, 6,700 ft. long with a foundation 35 ft. deep, to help purify...
Meantime, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis' idea to hike gas taxes 5? per gal. to repair highways and bridges was making progress in Congress. And Reagan threw his weight behind the notion, hatched in the Department of Agriculture, of using surplus grain as a payment for not producing new grain...