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...York last year state and fed eral engineers announced plans to put a six-lane highway along the Hudson River between Tarrytown and Crotonville. David Sive and Alfred S. Forsyth, New York environmental lawyers, duly went to work for a coalition including the Sierra Club and the Citizens Committee for the Hudson Valley. In a federal district court, Sive argued that drawings prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers depicted a large dike, extending 1,000 feet into the river, and a causeway. He then cited an 1899 federal law that forbids building dikes and causeways "over or in" navigable...
...January, George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, resigned from a Pentagon project staff working on the planned anti-personnel barrier between North and South Vietnam. Kistiakowsky, designer of the explo- sive trigger of the atom bomb, would not speak of his resignation in any but a philosophical fashion...
SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Ted Williams, onetime baseball great and now a fishing demon, gives some tips on how to catch Florida's elu-I sive bonefish; from there, Host Curt Gowdy travels north to Canada for some wonderful salmon fishing with a pair of winsome lady anglers...
...Burma tried to cope with as many as 500,000 chanting and marching anti-Chinese demonstrators a day. The brawling began after General Ne Win closed two Chinese schools for exces sive Mao-think in the curriculum and Chinese students hit the streets in protest, setting off the anti-Chinese explosion. Peking accused Rangoon of instigating an "outrage of white terror" against the Chinese, for the first time came out in full, open support of the more militant of Burma's two Com munist parties...
Like Ballpark Hot Dogs. Last week the old spa took on a fresh eminence with the opening of the Saratoga Per forming Arts Center, the most impres sive of the many new U.S. summer theaters. Nestled in a pine-fringed hollow, the center will be the summer residence of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet and Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra. The theater itself, designed by Manhattan's Vollmer Associates, is one of the world's largest, seating up to 5,100 inside and another 7,000 outside. People who perch on the upward-sloping...