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...once the book is published; for now, the CIA is arguing that the book is dangerous on narrower if no less vital grounds. It fears that the book will expose secret operations and covers, jeopardize if not eliminate relations with foreign secret services, and encourage other disgruntled employees to spill what they know or claim to know about the agency. The conflict is yet another example of the public's "right to know" v. the national interest; there is no easy answer...
Still, some local landowners vow not to sell at any price. Others, including Mearl Chairman Harry Mattin, have refused to commit themselves until Maine's board of environmental protection officially rules on the refinery project. What they all fear is a disastrous oil spill that could tar the coastline and wipe out the fisheries...
Still, when the theorizing becomes heavy, Farb knows how to entertain himself and his readers with a rich miscellany of random facts and provocative (if not always documented) opinions that spill beyond his outline...
Garrison didn't get many affectionate postmortems. By the time he lost the Shaw case, he was a genuine pariah, the only major political figure in New Orleans that the establishment press felt safe attacking. Garrison eventually became something of a safety valve for other politicians--the media would spill all their venom on him and by and large leave other politicians alone. In the same way, nobody really questioned Harry Connick's fervid law-and-order stance, reasoning that as long as he was against Garrison he deserved unified support...
...lifted a ban on drilling in an oil-rich but geologically unstable area of the Santa Barbara Channel. The ban had been declared in 1969 after an offshore well in the same area ruptured, tarring beaches and killing thousands of birds in the nation's most infamous oil spill...