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Such absurdity-in a city with one of the highest crime rates in the nation-finally moved Interior Secretary Walter Hickel to plead with Congress to junk the law. Meantime, a district court judge has put a strict construction on the old law, allowing that it applies only to Old Washington and Georgetown. Thus kites may be flown freely without fear of arrest in Rock Creek Park, Mains Point and other neutral zones...
...sympathies for the environmental cause through an aide, but otherwise did not participate, perhaps in apprehension that Earth Day might turn into a confrontation. Besides, Denis Hayes, national coordinator of the Environmental Teach-in, had suggested that Earth Day should "bypass the traditional political process." Interior Secretary Walter Hickel, in a display of candor if not superior timing, told an Alaska Earth Day audience that a controversial 800-mile hot oil pipeline will be built from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, despite concern that it will endanger fragile tundra along the way. The Administration holds that it has already established...
Only politicians were not well represented in plans for Earth Day ceremonies. There were exceptions: Senators Edmund Muskie at Harvard, Gaylord Nelson at Berkeley, Ted Kennedy at Yale, and Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel at the University of Alaska. But, explained Scott Lang, president of Harvard's Environmental Law Society: "We wanted informed people. Most politicians are only reading what their speechwriters write for them...
...industry, for example, is attempting to take over Alaska. Conservation groups, fighting the wishes of Interior Secretary Hickel, have obtained an injunction preventing construction of an 800-mile. $1 billion pipeline stretching from Valdez in southern Alaska to oil-rich Prudhoe Bay on the northern coast...
...laws, regulating strip mining, for example, flagrantly favor the desecration of the land for, as Secretary Hickel declared. "the stimulation of individual incentive to seek out and develop valuable minerals which are essential to the continued growth and prosperity of this nation...