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From its source on North Carolina's Black Mountain to the town of Canton, 22 miles away, the Pigeon River is a clean and lovely stream, lively with trout and tourists. By the time it leaves Canton (pop. 5,000), flowing toward and finally into Cocke County, Tenn., 50 miles away, the Pigeon has been transmogrified into a sludgy mess that looks like oily coffee and smells as bad as rotten eggs. The cause of this revolting change: industrial wastes that Champion International Corp. has been dumping into the Pigeon since the company opened a paper mill in Canton...
...Albert Gore Jr. '69 (D.-Tenn.) ran adistant third in Wisconsin. But even so, hepronounced himself "extremely pleased...
...Michael S. Dukakis and the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson are running a tight race in Wisconsin, while neither Sen. Paul Simon (D.-Ill.) or Sen. Albert A. Gore, Jr. '69 (D.-Tenn.) are serious threats in today's crucial primary contest, poltical analysts and campaign workers said yesterday...
June 18: Al Gore had been preparing for this summit for months. Every phone call, every chance meeting in airports, had been designed to lay the groundwork. Now, as Gore sat across the table from Jackson in Carthage, Tenn., he sensed that the nomination was in his grasp. "Jesse, this is what you've been fighting for all your life," Gore began quietly. "Unlike any other black in history, you have been given the power to choose the next President...
...survey, conducted Friday and Saturday, said 32 percent of likely Democratic voters supported Jackson, 29 percent backed Simon and 20 percent said they would vote for Dukakis. Rep. Richard Gephardt (D.-Mo.) was the choice of 5 percent and Sen. Albert Gore Jr. (D.-Tenn.) had 4 percent...