Word: reclaim
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...majority of the marchers will be black, there will also be American Indians, Appalachian whites and Mexican-Americans led by California's César Chávez, who organized the successful Delano farmworkers' strikes, and New Mexico's Reies Tijerina, whose abortive attempt to "reclaim" land last year made him a latter-day conquistador in Spanish-American eyes...
...Smith (Paul Ford) is a potato-faced professional vegetarian from the Midwest who plans to convert the natives to a diet of nut-burgers and Yeastrol. Jones (Alec Guinness) is a breezy, sleazy gun smuggler, all winks and leers, forever dreaming of deals. Brown (Richard Burton), in Haiti to reclaim his late mother's hotel, is a lapsed Catholic, a cynic, a middle-aged burned-out case. He is also a ready target for temptation, as substantially embodied in a Latin American ambassador's wife (Elizabeth Taylor). She waits for Burton in her car on a highway-evidently...
...wholehearted blessing to the republican regime of Nasser's puppet, General Abdullah Sallal, and declared that he himself is "the only legitimate monarch of Saudi Arabia." Back in Cairo, he went on the air to announce that he had "decided to return home at whatever cost" to reclaim his throne from his brother - and Nasser's current enemy - King Feisal...
...absence of any federal legislation, the states have had to move on their own. Only eight of the 23 states in which strip miners operate have statutes requiring miners to reclaim their land; but the eight-Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia-produce 80% of all strip-mined coal. And as the realization spreads of how badly strip mining destroys nature, the laws are getting tighter. Pennsylvania, for example, amended its existing law in 1963 to require that miners put everything back into the hole except the coal; Kentucky passed a similar measure last year...
...Pays? Next the Federal Government is preparing to step in. After a year's study, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall will present President Johnson with his recommendations for federal legislation in May. His chief dilemma: who should pay to reclaim orphaned "spoil banks"-land that was stripped before there were any laws by miners who are no longer around. The Interior Department estimates that there are some 800,000 acres of barren, orphaned land in the twelve-state Appalachia region alone, pegs the cost of reclaiming them at $250 million...