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...access road. Neither can be built, the court ruled, until the Interior Department heeds the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, which requires a detailed report on the pipeline's ecological effects before the department can issue a building permit. Even without the court order, says Interior Secretary Hickel, his department will block the line until it is proved safe...
...Hickel, though, is still an Alaskan and well aware of his state's economic anguish. With his tacit blessing, Alaska Governor Keith Miller clumsily tried to move ahead on the $120 million access road. He first got his legislature to approve a bill that would allow the state to build the road and then be repaid by the pipeline consortium. Not wishing to risk stockholder suits, the consortium turned down the idea. In order to reintroduce his plan. Miller asked the legislature to return to Juneau early this month for a special session. But when the legislators discovered that...
Beneath eagle feathers grinned the Crow Indians' new pipe carrier-better known as U.S. Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel. The outspoken Cabinet member stopped off at the Crow reservation in Montana's Bighorn mountain area to be inducted into the tribe. The title is only honorary; the Crows' real pipe carrier is Henry Old Coyote, whose brother, Barney Old Coyote, translated the proceedings, which were conducted in Crow. Responded Conservationist Hickel, using the white man's tongue: "You have learned to live with nature without abusing...
...when things are running smoothly. In a crisis, it is a different matter. When a staffer or Cabinet member has an overwhelming reason to see the President, Haldeman insists, they do. He says: "The Postmaster General got in without any trouble at all during the postal strike. Suppose Wally Hickel calls up at 2 a.m. and says there's been a disaster in oil pollution. He says, 'I've got to talk to the President.' He gets to talk to him." The whole staff system, Haldeman contends, "is set up to get the pertinent information in. It spends...
...important Republican Senator thought that Nixon's sleeplessness on the eve of the May 9 Washington demonstration was "the best thing that has happened recently. It was the first sign, the first indication that things were getting through to him." There have been others. Interior Secretary Wally Hickel finally got to see Nixon last week. Students have had ready access to White House offices and aides since the college strikes began, and reporters have found some normally closemouthed Nixon assistants not only available but downright candid about their jobs. These are only straws in the wind, but Nixon is obviously...