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The Arizona Strip has long been an eagerly contested prize. Six million acres of largely federally owned desert, forest, canyons and mountains, it stretches 60 miles from the Grand Canyon in northwest Arizona up to the Utah border. Environmentalists, impressed by the region's spectacular scenery and rare wildlife...
A pair of remedial measures are already before Congress. A Senate committee recently approved a bill that would require reduction over the next decade of sulfur-dioxide emissions by 10 million tons in the states bordering on and east of the Mississippi. A tougher measure was introduced in the House...
DIED. Maxie Leroy Anderson, 48, daredevil, eye-patched balloonist who captured the world's delighted attention in 1978 when he and two fellow aeronauts made the first transatlantic crossing in the silvery Double Eagle II; in a balloon crash; in Brückenau, West Germany. After amassing a mining...
Brilliant sunshine gave way to rain later in the day when the Pope reached Katowice, a steel-producing city in the Upper Silesian coal-mining region. The heavy downpour did little to dampen the spirit of the crowd of 1.2 million that was waiting for John Paul under a forest...
Mining companies began hollowing out the caverns in the 1940s as they dug for limestone for highway construction. Rather than use the opencut quarry method, which scars the landscape, miners tunneled deep into bluffs along a limestone seam 22½ ft. thick, creating rooms with pillars. In all, 200 million...