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...demise of the town too. And last week, obeying a 1976 order by a U.S. district court to stop dumping in the lake, the facility did close-though only until May. Then the plant will reopen and begin shipping its wastes by rail and pipeline to a huge inland basin. There the tailings will be deposited and kept covered under 10 ft. of water so that the fiber dust cannot escape. Speaking about his town, Silver Bay's Mayor Robert Kind, an officer in the state highway patrol, says happily: "Now I think we are going to hold...
...reports written, legislation passed, bans enforced, and billions of dollars spent on facilities to clean the waste water that was being dumped into the lakes. As a result, even environmentalists are optimistic about the future of the waters. Says G. Keith Rogers, a scientist at the Canada Center for Inland Waters: "Previously people were saying 'How can we stop the lakes from getting worse?' Now we are seriously talking about rehabilitating the lakes to their original state...
...Mississippi, where Red Cross officials said 150,000 people had fled inland, tides six feet above normal hit Jackson County near the Alabama state line. Gov. Cliff Finch authorized the mobilization of the National Guard in Mississippi to assist local officials...
...second of the six phased withdrawals prescribed by the pact. Israel ceded to Egypt a 2,500-sq.-mi. stretch of desert coastline and rugged inland mountains along the Gulf of Suez. According to the Israeli interpretation of the treaty, the hand-over was completed two months ahead of schedule, a reality that should have conveyed a sense of reciprocal good will. But, compared with the jubilation that accompanied Israel's pullback from El Arish in May, the ceremony this time was perfunctory. It was also overshadowed by a series of new Middle Eastern controversies and, most...
...donations? Well, the officials explain, our factory-or municipal bureau or provincial trading office, as the case may be-is desperately short of transportation, for instance, and a reliable car might be most appreciated. The car, either new or secondhand, is duly acquired in Hong Kong and shipped inland. Technically, it belongs to the factory; in practice, it usually becomes the private property of one or two high officials...