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Train's appointment had been expected by many Administration watchers. They detected a growing coolness between Train and his boss, Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel, who was said to resent reports that Train was actually running the department. Chairman Train's fellow members will be Geophysicist Gordon J. F. MacDonald, 40, vice chancellor for research and graduate affairs at the University of California (Santa Barbara), and Robert Cahn, 52, a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter for the Christian Science Monitor who has specialized in conservation stories. All three nominees must be approved by the Senate, but little opposition is likely...
...president of the nonprofit Conservation Foundation. During the 1968 presidential campaign he headed Candidate Nixon's Task Force on the Environment. Last January, Train's appointment as No. 2 man at Interior was hailed by conservationists, who then feared (but no longer) that Secretary Walter J. Hickel was unsympathetic to their cause. Now Train, whom Hickel often bypassed on policy matters, may be in a position to bypass Hickel...
...Indians may be getting their point across. Not long after they settled in, Interior Secretary Walter Hickel took Alcatraz off the list of surplus federal property, a move Indians regard as a first step toward winning full control of the island from the U.S. Government. Last week Representative George Brown, a Los Angeles Democrat, introduced a resolution to transfer Alcatraz to the Indians for their proposed cultural center. Ten Congressmen joined him as cosponsors...
...Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel, the Alaskan capitalist turned conservationist, Christmas brought tidings glad and sad. The good news: Hickel has won a key battle in his long struggle to save Florida's Everglades National Park. The threat to the unique aquatic park was a huge proposed airport that would have polluted the Everglades' chief watershed. Now, the Departments of Interior and Transportation are expected to conclude an agreement with the Dade County Port Authority to move the encroaching airport (plus a small training strip already built on the site) far from the Everglades...
...Hickel's bad news came from California's Santa Barbara Channel, the scene of last January's big oil leak. Once again, a thick black tide from the same Union Oil Co. well oozed offshore over a 20-mile area, fouling beaches and harming marine creatures. Company officials and the U.S. Geological Survey maintain that the new leak was caused by a buildup of pressure in the oil dome. The solution to the problem seems to be to keep pumping oil so that the pressure does not reach the rupture point. But even normal operation...