Word: reclaim
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...away from the state mines department, which has a reputation for favoring strippers. The law prohibits stripping within 100 feet of any public road, stream, park, school or building. Strippers, when they apply for a mining permit, must now submit a detailed advance plan of how they intend to reclaim the mined land. They are further required to carry a minimum of $50,000 liability insurance to cover damages from sliding overburden to any adjacent property owners, who may recover three times the actual damage...
...through other plantations in Liberia and Malaysia, but it will likely buy Indonesian rubber. Goodyear is negotiating to return. Its first task if it does: to restore efficiency at the Bogor plant, where tire output is off two-thirds since U.S. managers were kicked out. Union Carbide hopes to reclaim its battery plant, may also start tungsten mining. Caltex, which recently signed a five-year $50 million contract to supply the Indonesian government with lubricating oils and grease, has set aside $10 million to open a new oil field in addition to its present 310,000 barrels-a-day operation...
...papers. "Independent placement" is not illegal in most states as long as no baby broker receives a profit for arranging the deal, but it can produce painful complications. If, as often happens, the natural mother knows who the new parents are, she can subsequently turn up and try to reclaim her child...
...shooting survivors. Gradually, the remaining defenders pulled back around the two 105s still in U.S. hands. The guns were cranked down to point-blank range; high-explosive shells, white phosphorus and "beehives," the deadly modern version of grapeshot, were fired at the enemy. Helicoptered reinforcements soon arrived to reclaim the hill with its burden of heavy casualties, including 117 enemy dead...
...power is withdrawn to search out the enemy elsewhere, the water, meaning the Red control of the countryside, runs back. Pacification efforts have largely failed in rural areas because there are not enough Allied troops to leave behind to provide a permanent shield behind which civilian teams can reclaim the peasants for the government. Even should negotiations take place, most U.S. officers in Viet Nam think the U.S. will need to be around for a long time in force to ensure that all the local Viet Cong, from village cops to schoolteachers, are identified by the Vietnamese and rooted...