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...site for huge potential oil reserves, Alaska's North Slope has long been a battleground between environmentalists and energy companies. Interior Secretary Donald Hodel renewed the debate last week by proposing that a section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge be opened to drilling. He would permit exploration on 1.5 million acres of the 19-million-acre preserve, which could contain between 600 million and 9 billion bbl. of crude. Conservationists contend that drilling would disturb the region's delicate ecosystem for little reason: a strike, they claim, would add just 4% to U.S. oil reserves. Canada also objects...
...journey has been a failure that has haunted Dewitt for the rest of his days. Recently, prompted by a re-run of Woodstock on PBS, Dewitt decided try again, twenty years after the fact. Unfortunately, his Harley was long gone to the junk yard and his motorcycle operator's permit had been revoked after an unfortunate accident with an errant toddler, so Dewitt had to settle for a Schwinn ten-speed for transportation. Undaunted, Dewitt forged ahead: if some of the old ambience was missing, at least he was working off his paunch...
...polishing that results, however, is not likely to ease the worrisome impact of the changes on federal prisons, already at 153% of capacity. The guidelines permit probation in fewer circumstances, mostly for the first-time offender who has committed a nonviolent crime. They also abolish the parole system for federal prisoners, as Congress has mandated, so that a five-year term will mean just that, minus no more than 54 days a year for good behavior. The commission estimates its tougher penalties will cause the federal prison population to grow by an extra 10% over the next decade. That could...
...their governments to the so-called two-track decision. NATO would proceed toward deployment, beginning in late 1983, of 572 new intermediate- range American missiles in Europe to offset the SS-20s. Five NATO members would accept batteries of Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missiles, and West Germany would also permit the upgrading of the Pershing I to the Pershing II, which has more than twice the range and a much more accurate warhead. At the same time, the U.S. would propose negotiations with the Soviets on a scaled- back deployment of American intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in exchange...
...COUNCIL'S good fortune in convincing Boston to permit additional seating for the concert does not change the fact that the council did not take the time to look into city ordinances restricting the concert's size before putting student money on the line. Council members in part justified the investment in the concert by arguing that reduced ticket prices would make the Costello show more affordable than professionally produced concerts. Apparently, however, the council did not do the research necessary to know if that would be the case. Tickets, which SPA Vice Chairman Jeffrey A. Nachmanoff at first said...