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CONSOLIDATED EDISON spokesmen also enjoy denying that the project will cause any adverse environmental effects. The company will cite upon request a study by the New York State Conservation Department, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries indicating that only 2.5 per cent of the striped bass in the Hudson would be killed by the plant's operation. It does not often cite more recent testimony showing an impact closer to 25 per cent, nor the rumor that the original report misplaced a decimal point...
...Construction crews arrived at the mountain a few weeks ago, and began clearing the brush before beginning blasting the tunnel. Asked whether the utility has any reservations about starting before the litigation is complete, Con Ed denies that it does; "We have every expectation that we will win," the spokesmen say. And in the event that an adverse decision halts the project? "We have every expectation," the spokesmen repeat, "that we will win." And if not, they seem to imply, Cornwall will be left with a somewhat useless 40-foot-diameter, two-mile-long tunnel to the river...
...Another memo disclosed that in one month of 1969, President Nixon made 21 requests of his staff for "specific action relating to what could be considered unfair news coverage." As a result, presidential aides reviewed methods for dealing with "the media and anti-Administration spokesmen." Jeb Stuart Magruder, then an aide to Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, recommended antitrust action and threats of tax audits as weapons. Former White House Aide Franklyn ("Lyn") Nofziger was more imaginative according to the memo, "suggesting the 'licensing' of individual newsmen, i.e., the air waves belong to the public, therefore the public...
...debate developed between spokesmen from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Senate Subcommittee on Health which is chaired by Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass...
...this theory note that the ideological attack on the "counterrevolutionary" opera Three Ascents Up Peach Mountain (TIME, March 1 8) has turned into a well-coordinated, nationwide campaign. Provincial radio broadcasts have elevated the attack on the opera to the dignity of a "life-and-death class struggle." Party spokesmen have called for nothing less than a "people's war" to combat the offending opera's "approvers, supporters and concoctors...