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...result, Legends of the American Desert (Knopf; 534 pages; $30) is a fascinating and sometimes bewildering profusion of themes that appear, join, separate and disappear like the braided channels of a Southwestern river. It is also an impressive exercise in graceful journalism. Chapters on the Anasazi and Havasupai tribes, for instance, and the Jesuits and Franciscans, don't read like potted histories ploddingly typed from a writer's file cards. There's no dust in this desert history. Colonizers and colonized live in the author's mind; ideas about them boil up, and off he goes in pursuit...
...Postal officials counter that their service is truly universal, whereas their electronic predators are unduly optimistic about how widespread the new communications infrastructure will become. Faithful human couriers still haul letters by mule train to the Havasupai tribe in Arizona and don Santa suits to deliver cards and presents at Christmastime. Besides, the 206-year-old service is planning for its survival -- experimenting with ventures ranging from stamp collectors' services on CD-ROM to the certification of business- related electronic communications, similar to what it now does for postmarked, certified and registered mail. Another scheme would locate electronic kiosks...
...Those numbers are double the figures of five years ago, and are expected to more than double again in five years. Hardly any school or library is without at least one machine, and the Xerox seems to have replaced the water cooler as an office social center. The isolated Havasupai Indians on the floor of the Grand Canyon turn out their tribal newsletter on two Xerox 660s. Gosplan, the state planning committee of the U.S.S.R., reproduces many of its official documents on Xerox machines. As a result of the galloping ubiquity of office copiers, hardly anyone nowadays passes...
Need Help. The Havasupai have even more formidable champions. Senator Edward Kennedy urged his House colleagues to pass the amendment because the Havasupai "are not going to build a dam, or put up a factory, or launch a tourist extravaganza." Senator Barry Goldwater said the Sierra Club has become "a closed society, a self-centered, selfish group, who care for nothing but ideas which they themselves originate and which fit only their personal conceptions of the way of life everyone else should be compelled to live." Hubert Humphrey, another Senate supporter, said the amendment would not be environmentally disruptive because...
...Havasupai clearly need help. They refuse to move to any other land because they want to be where their ancestors are buried. But their life in the canyon is nearly unbearable. During the summer some can make a modest living by guiding tourists on foot or horseback down to spectacular Havasu Falls, not far from their village. In winter, however, they are cut off, often for weeks, from the nearest medical aid and supplies. Groceries must be brought from a supermarket 110 miles away in Kingman, Ariz, and sell in the village co-op store for as much...