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Armies are machines designed by and large for human destruction, but they are also generators of huge piles of junk. Even in peacetime, military decisions to scrap costly and complicated systems constantly add more litter to the pile. As a result of 30 years of hot and cold wars, the U.S. Department of Defense has become cumulatively-and with a sense of considerable embarrassment-far and away the nation's biggest litterbug...
...Drum Culture. The hardest hit of all the states has been one of the most remote. Alaska's Aleutian Island chain is littered with an enormous potpourri of debris. More than 2,000 World War II-vintage Quonset huts still poke like ugly blisters above the desolate landscape of Amchitka, the site of this month's scheduled underground nuclear blast. Bomber tails and ruptured fuselages litter the island. An estimated one million fuel drums are scattered on Alaska's north coast. At least 100,000 drums, left by builders of DEW-line radar sites in the 1950s...
...century Army officers' quarters were smashed by soldiers, and windows were shot out for sport. Bill Allison, Angel Island's manager, shakes his head at the "sheer vandalism of it all" and estimates that it might cost as much as $500,000 just to clear up the litter...
...first, Medicine Ball Caravan looks like another whelp from the Woodstock litter. The idea was to have some freaks travel cross-country in Day-Glo buses disseminating rock music, good vibes and easygoing propaganda for the counterculture. Warner Bros, would pack along a camera crew to record the music, the interaction and the scenery...
Indians of the Quinault tribe in Washington State went a step further. Two years ago they had had enough of vacationers, who defaced sacred rocks with spray paint and ruined the beauty of their beaches with tons of litter. So they closed the 25-mile stretch of beach and wilderness area on the Olympic Peninsula to all nontribal people...