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...made it up for breakfast, poured out of the elevator and stood on the sunny sidewalk as Schelling choreographed the taxicabs, and sent his men off into battle. On the way over to the Old Senate Office Building for their meeting with Brooke, Schelling and Neustadt discussed pipe tobacco. The cabbies said, "I hope you gentlemen are going to be out of here before all these students arrive for the big demonstration tomorrow...
Neustadt puffed on his pipe and said, "Some of us have regarded the executive branch as our home for twenty or thirty years. This is a hard turn to come to-to be here urging congressional intervention which two or three weeks ago we would have regarded as unacceptable...
...quietly anymore. We want you to know: we want Henry to know. Civilian control of the military is sufficiently at stake that congressional control of the President is urgently needed. This leaves us executive-branch lovers in tough shape-but it has to be said." He gulped at his pipe...
...poker on a cake of ice. After thawing the permafrost, the line might sag into the slush and finally break, spilling oil that could do great harm because it would last for years. Moreover, the line's route would cross earthquake zones. Since each mile of pipe would have a capacity of 100,000 barrels of crude, any break in the line could have disastrous consequences...
...dangers are well known to the engineers of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, a consortium of eight oil companies and their pipeline subsidiaries. Obeying strict stipulations written by the Interior Department and the U.S. Geological Survey, the engineers have ordered corrosion-resistant steel pipe and plan to provide remote-control shut-off valves along the route. In addition, they must respect the ecology of the areas the pipe crosses. However, their plans call for burying 90% of the pipeline in the permafrost, while the Geological Survey wants about 50% of it raised on stilts over the tundra. Until the differences...