Word: interiorized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LEASING TROUBLES. In 1971, the Sierra Club sued the Interior Department to force it to describe the environmental effects of mining in the Northern Great Plains. The environmentalists wanted to know how mining would affect water supplies, how the now sparsely populated region could absorb the expected horde of 516,000 residents and how the land could be returned to its original uses. As the case wound through the courts, Interior declared a moratorium on the leasing of public lands in the West. That denied mining companies much of the potential coal supply since it lies below federally owned soil...
Last January the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, and Interior Secretary Thomas S. Kleppe announced that leasing of the land may be resumed by mid-1977-in an entirely new way. Instead of granting leases on the traditional first-come, first-served basis, Kleppe will accept competitive bids. Speculators will be discouraged by a requirement that winning bidders develop their land "diligently...
...Italy, Luigi Gui lost his job as Minister of the Interior. He had been Defense Minister in 1970, when the Italian government bought 14 C-130 transports from Lockheed for $60 million despite protests from opposition politicians that Italian-made planes were just as effective and cost less. Now a Lockheed memo, made public by the Church subcommittee, discloses that in 1970 the company paid $2.2 million to Italian agents, who passed on "more than 85%" of it to government officials. The reason, according to Lockheed Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer Carl Kotchian: "An Italian Senator" told a Lockheed...
...said that they had not eaten since the quake struck, and crowds fought to get near the few public taps that still trickled water. "They're eating rats and anything else they can get their hands on," said one Red Cross official who reached Guatemala's devastated interior by helicopter...
...history--that many Frenchmen sold their countrymen into the arms of the Nazis for the sake of their careers under what they believed would be a Nazi future in Europe--informs the conflict between collaborators and loyalists that runs throughout the film. When the fascist Minister of the Interior argues the importance of order in a "National Socialist state," the loyalist Minister of Justice angrily snaps back, "you mean Kraut...