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...most persuasive argument in favor of saving Lockheed was the question Of employment. "I think jobs certainly were the key issue," said John Tower of Texas, leader of the pro-Lockheed forces in the Senate. "I would not take upon myself," admitted Montana's Lee Metcalf, who also voted for Lockheed, "the responsibility of closing out all these jobs." As many as 60,000 jobs were at stake at Lockheed, at the firm's suppliers and subcontractors in 35 states, and at stores and offices in peripheral communities...
Like the rest of the week, the scene was a combination of pathology and pathos. As some of the young earnestly and tearfully sought to move Congress with their message against the war, a longhair pranced naked before the Capitol. Montana Senator Lee Metcalf socked a cop in the chest for refusing to let him pass. Then, implacably, the police moved in to arrest yet another 1,000 and haul them off to jail...
Left to die a natural death, the insects would decompose and the next rain would wash their internal cargo of long-lived pesticides and toxic metals back into the water supply. But Metcalf proposes breaking the natural cycle. Since the insects are attracted to light, they can easily be caught in standard, electrically illuminated traps. One night Metcalf captured 300,000 adult midges in a single trap. They can then be burned at high enough temperatures to break down the pesticides...
...Metcalf estimates that Lake Michigan contains 10,000 Ibs. of dissolved DDT. About 50 trillion insects leave the lake annually, each one containing .0000001 gram of the pesticide. If 10% of the bugs were trapped and burned every year−and no more DDT was sprayed around the watershed−the lake could be free of the pesticide in a decade...
Breaking the Cycle. In a report to the Entomological Society of America, Metcalf pointed out that mosquitoes, May flies, midges and stone flies spend a great part of their lives as larvae in the water before metamorphosing into their more familiar buzzing selves. In a controlled experiment, Metcalf built a small tank to duplicate the ecosystem of a lake and its shore. He discovered that adult mosquitoes leaving the tank contained concentrations of DDT 100,000 times as strong as could be found in the water itself...