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...government has been doing all it can to turn Sun Moon Lake into an international resort. They are finishing a $10 million Buddhist temple and plan a new highway to encircle the lake. There are already several minor temples around the lake. By climbing 400 steps up a mountainside, and 200 more inside one pagoda, one can get a view of the entire area. It is almost as breathtaking as the climb...
Already the President has angered some Governors and mayors by impounding the money that Congress has approved for such purposes as highway construction and pollution control. The City of New York is suing Environmental Protection Administrator William Ruckelshaus in federal court, charging that the impounding of water-pollution-control funds is illegal. Officials of other local governments are considering many such suits. They have raised a genuine legal question. Says one high Washington official: "Maybe we'll end up in jail, but we're still going to try to hold spending down...
...BRINEGAR, 45, a California oilman, could turn out to be Nixon's most controversial Cabinet appointment. He takes over as Secretary of Transportation from John Volpe, who has been named Ambassador to Italy. While the Administration has supported the diversion to mass transit of funds earmarked for highway building, Nixon has chosen a man whose company, Union Oil Co. of California, stands foursquare against such a shift. In 1970 the firm spent $20,000 to help defeat a California proposition that would have switched some gasoline-tax money to public transportation. Union Oil was also responsible for the notorious...
...which called for America to agree to immediate and total withdrawal from Vietnam. Because of her constant pressing of the problem of drug treatment, Corcoran finally approved a $67,000 outside grant for a community-based drug treatment program. One of her major fights has been against the highway that Governor Sargent wants to put through Cambridge; as chairman of the T Committee she gathered support for the Boston Transportation Planning Review (BTPR). "It's fun to work against highways here," she said. "Cambridge is pretty together on transportation...
...highway florescence outside the post gates...