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¶ Strip-miners must restore the land to its "approximate original contour," thus eliminating all hillside gashes, depressions in or piles of soil on the earth. In addition, the miners can no longer dump debris over hillsides.
Hardest hit were the villages and small towns near Mexico's highest peak, the 18,700-ft. Orizaba volcano. In Veladero, a village of 2,000 people, only 20 of its 280 houses were left standing. In Orizaba, an industrial town near Veracruz, a three-story building was split...
Thus far, eleven nations-the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, West Germany, Britain, France, Canada, Belgium, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands -have cooperated in a relief project sponsored by the U.S.'s Agency for International Development that has given the area $135 million in food (U.S. share: $43 million...
The wide sidewalks still give the city a particular sense. They are paved in the middle with a narrow course of slabs or concrete, and on either side with a broad extent of small granite cobbles. Like everything else here, they are constantly under construction. Piles of stone chunks and...
Mail piles up. It's a nuisance. Sooner or later the matter is at Cabinet level and everyone is wondering whether the prisoner is worth all this trouble. The answer is frequently no."