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...onetime underground fighter and Ambassador to Cyprus. But he says it with a smile. The Political-Economic Planning Division is actually Israel's antiboycott office, set up eleven years ago to thwart the efforts of 18 Arab countries to choke Israel economically. "The boycott does us infinitesimal harm now," says Arazi. "It is so inefficient and ineffective that we simply don't need this division any more...
...York Poet Leonore Marshall, brought suit in Washington's U.S. district court against the AEC. The suit noted that the underground tests, to be detonated on Amchitka in October, will be five times more powerful than the 1969 blast. It charged that such an explosion would do irreparable harm to the environment and asked the court to stop the test...
...argues that the test, on which $ 167 million has been spent thus far, will not harm the environment; further, it is vital to the development of weapons for the nation's defense. While radioactive debris has escaped from 68 of 253 underground nuclear tests held in Nevada, AEC officials contend that no leaks have been recorded for tests of more than 200 kilotons. On the other hand, they admit that water contaminated with radioactive tritium could seep through open rock to the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean any time within three to 1,000 years. Such uncertainty hardly...
...gathered" 40,000 wild horses, and in whose pen Rocky awaits his fate. Chug remembers flying over wild herds in a light plane and using a "four-ten sawed-off shotgun just to spook 'em. We also used an electric shocking machine, but we didn't harm 'em. That's all poppycock." Anyway, says Chug philosophically, "there's only one end to being a horse, whether he's a champion race horse or a plug: dog food...
...promises to harm what the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments call the nation's "trading posture." On the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, except for some Maine ports, only Delaware Bay has deep enough water to handle the world's growing fleets of supertankers and giant cargo ships. But in a recent letter to a complaining industrialist, Peterson bluntly suggested that there was a somewhat less economic alternative: "Forgo the use of large vessels and continue to use smaller vessels...