Word: interior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman of the House Interior Committee, Mo Udall has clout where it counts, and he used it. Last week he joined the contingent of irate Arizona officials, including Governor Raul Castro, who appeared in Washington to press the case for CAP. For 40 years, the state has been battling to tap the Colorado. Without the water, says Udall, with his customary flair, Tucson and Phoenix "are going to dry up and blow away...
...last week's public hearing in Jamestown, N. Dak., the state's officials put as much pressure as they could on the Carter Administration. Governor Arthur Link even succeeded in persuading Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus, an old friend, to come. North Dakota's three-man congressional delegation was there, as were most state officials and nearly the entire state legislature, which made the 100-mile trip from Bismarck to attend. Backing the project, State Representative Michael Unhjem bitterly asked: "I wonder if Georgia ever had a drought during...
...Bureau of Reclamation so bitterly opposed by Shatz is an agency of the Department of the Interior. Founded in 1902 to irrigate the barren West, the bureau has spent $7.6 billion to dam, channel, pump and divert almost anything that flows in that vast region. The bureau's proudest monuments: the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Grand Coulee on the Columbia...
...Department, where Secretary Kreps has selected women for five of the 14 top-ranking jobs. Elsewhere, the record is much worse. HUD's Harris has included two women among the nine people she has selected so far. At Defense, women hold two of the 16 filled positions, and Interior is in the process of naming its first female...
...more than 600 intellectuals, which calls on the Prague government to protect the human rights of its citizens; of a brain hemorrhage; in Prague. A former professor of philosophy, Patoĉka was hospitalized for exhaustion earlier this month after prolonged questioning over a two-day period at the Interior Ministry...