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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claims have created uneasiness and even turmoil in entire towns, paralyzing the real estate business, delaying bond issues, thwarting commercial and housing construction and beclouding future planning. At first the claims aroused amusement; now they are taken seriously. This was dramatized last week when the White House was the site for a conference called to introduce the President's own mediator, Georgia Supreme Court Justice William Gunter, to parties in the big Maine land case...
...June, that the Auburn Dam would be safe. The gigantic structure (4,200 ft. wide at its base and 700 ft. high) would be built in an area prone to earthquakes. U.S. Geological Survey scientists say there is a dangerous earthquake fault less than a mile from the proposed site. The Association of Engineering Geologists warned last year that an earthquake could shatter the dam, releasing a reservoir 40 miles long containing 736 billion gallons of water. The terrifying result: a 100 ft. high wall of water that would rupture other dams downstream and all but drown the Sacramento area...
Defense and prosecution witnesses testified Saturday that state troopers and 20 officers from five area neighborhoods, equipped with dogs, riot helmets, sticks and mace, were dispatched to the site following the complaint...
...original noise complaint was challenged Saturday when the closest resident to the 12-acre site testified that she had been at home but had not heard any noise on the night in question...
...Therapy points out that radical surgery-or any other treatment, including radiation-is frequently performed so late that the removal of additional tissue is no insurance against a recurrence of the disease; too often, cancerous cells have already spread to other parts of the body far from their original site in the breast. Thus, Hellman and other doctors are stressing local control of the cancer by destroying the primary tumor-with radiation from an external or internal source, or both-without subjecting the patient to further disfigurement...