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...many crises of the environment, plans for the $11.2 million dam went unprotested until nearly too late. In 1967, the conservationists went to work. That archchampion of the wilderness, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, led hikers through the gorge to publicize its impending fate. "The building of dams is one of the great obsessions of America," he said, "but engineering values are not what we live...
Moribund Machine. Rescuers are attempting various forms of fiscal resuscitation. City Administrator George Washnis, an optimist who believes that there is nothing wrong with the city that $750 million will not cure, is looking for $30 million to $50 million in catalytic federal funds, hoping that private industry will provide the rest over the next 20 years. Some money is already trickling in. A $2,086,000 grant under the Model Cities program is expected shortly, and the city could receive about $23 million more if other major federal grants come through. Illinois' Governor Richard Ogilvie recently approved...
...counties. He had two important factors going for him. One was that reapportionment shifts had cut into Republican strength-a fact that went all but unnoticed last year because Laird had amassed 64.5% of the vote. Another was Republican Governor Warren Knowles' proposal to balance a $25 million budget deficit by raising taxes, a move endorsed by Chilsen. The day before the election, the G.O.P. almost certainly lost hundreds of dairy farmers' votes when Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin announced that he did not support 90% parity for milk prices...
...last-minute compromise, or a U.S. decision to delay, Washington this week will be forced to end all aid to Peru as well as sugar purchases at preferential prices. The political consequences of such action are cloudy, but the economic effects are clear. Peru would lose at least $50 million a year in U.S. trade...
...part, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, the leader of the Peruvian junta, professes that he cannot comprehend why the U.S. is so upset. The seizure was legal under Peruvian law, he explains. Furthermore, according to the junta's charge, IPC still owes some $690 million for oil it "illegally" extracted. To the junta's way of thinking, it is Peru that should be angry. The U.S., says General Velasco, "is a just country. I cannot believe that the amendment will be applied...