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...done its homework well in its effort to keep KP&L from getting the land needed for the plant by eminent domain. The group has prepared a 51-page briefing for the Pottawatomie County District Court which must decide soon whether to issue an injunction preventing KP&L from taking the farmers' land...
...extensive brief argues against KP&L's right to eminent domain on the grounds that: the need for a 2800 megawatt plant in Kansas has been contested by several independent studies; no adequate studies of the environmental effects of the plant have yet been made; the land is zoned for agriculture and KP&L has refused to appear before the Pettawatomie County Zoning Board to attempt to have it rezoned; and, KP&L has not adequately explained the need for acquiring 12,800 acres of land for the plant, when other similar plants have been built on less than...
...Also: KP&L has not replied to a July request from the Army Corps of Engineers that it apply for a permit to pump water from the Kansas River to their plant five miles away; the Environmental Protection Agency and the Bureau of Mines have questioned KP&L's estimate of the sulfur content of the coal for the plant; and, KP&L's own estimate that the plant will burn 1600 tons of coal per hour, take and never return over one-third of the volume of water in the Kansas River, and dump 60,000 tons of sulfur...
Drill and KP. At 11:30 the students hear the first of two daily lectures on Jewish history and culture; two more hours of karate classes are given in the afternoon. There is also occasional instruction in rappelling on the rocky camp escarpments. "The arms training may be to protect Jewish shopkeepers," explains Robert Glass, 15. Says another trainee, Larry Amsel, 19: "Scaling rocks may be preparation for scaling buildings in case of an outbreak of urban guerrilla warfare...
...colors-a small American flag above a larger Israeli flag -are lowered. The rest of the time the campers practice close-order drill, pull KP and read some of the library's 200-odd books. Among the most popular are Treblinka, by Jean-François Steiner, and While Six Million Died, by Arthur D. Morse, which accuses Franklin D. Roosevelt of slackness in coming to the aid of Hitler's victims. One book is required reading: The Palestine Underground, by Y. Borisov. For good behavior, campers can earn a weekly pass that allows them to go into...