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...Jicarilla Apaches, a tribe of about 1,800 New Mexican Indians with a substantial income from oil and gas investments, put up $2,000,000. Says Chief Charlie Vigil: "We consider ourselves a corporation like any other." The chief liked the idea of bankrolling Johnny Cash because he is one-fourth Cherokee...
...coastal wetlands and estuaries are being increasingly threatened by man's onslaught: between 1950 and 1969, almost 650,000 acres were lost to dredging and filling. According to the Natural Estuary Study compiled by the Interior Department, more than one-fourth of the 1,400,000 acres designated as shellfish areas are polluted. An area-by-area survey made last week by TIME correspondents indicates that the despoliation continues unabated...
...Administration counters that its willingness to back Peking's admission to the U.N. is an unavoidable consequence of reality; in its own interest the U.S. needs to establish relations with the regime that governs one-fourth of the world's population...
...risk group is only 19, the team points out that these occurred in a sampling of only 1,109 people, the oldest of whom is now just 35. Among Japanese of the same age who arrived in Hiroshima or Nagasaki after the bombings, cancer has occurred at less than one-fourth this rate. Even this incidence is unexpectedly high, and the investigators cannot yet explain...
...missing, 64 wounded, 73 helicopters destroyed-the South Vietnamese suffered considerable casualties. Saigon admits to 918 ARVN dead, but unofficial estimates put the toll closer to 2,000 crack troops dead or missing and another 4,000 wounded. Compared with Cambodia, Lam Son has so far yielded only one-fourth as many captured enemy weapons, one-half as much ammunition, one-fifth as much rice and about the same number of enemy dead-at a cost of about seven times as many ARVN troops dead...