Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gallatin, Tenn...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--Gov. Lamar Alexander said yesterday he will try to delay the release of 17 convicts--recipients of last-minute grants of clemency from outgoing Gov. Ray Blanton--as a federal grand jury continues to investigate charges that Blanton misused his power to pardon...
...Federal Government to build a waterway linking the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers. Such a canal would provide a direct outlet to the Gulf of Mexico for all the barge traffic in the Ohio River Basin and southern Appalachia. After years of studies and debates, Congress finally authorized the Tenn-Tom project in 1946, and after 2½ decades more of planning and preparation, construction began in 1972. Today the project is still only one-quarter complete, leaving a deep gash in the countryside that looks as if it had been capriciously made by the knife of some vengeful...
While challenging the tactics of the corps, the environmentalists oppose the Tenn-Tom on more basic grounds. They believe that the largely unpolluted Tombigbee will be turned into a series of small stagnant pools. Some 45,000 acres, rich with wildlife, fossils and Indian relics, will be inundated. Randall Grace, former executive director of the Tombigbee River Conservation Council, asserts that the project will "transform northeastern Mississippi into a huge garbage dump. The promoters say that it will turn the region into the Ruhr Valley of the South, without realizing how polluted the Ruhr...
...eligible to participate in this weekend's festivities as a member of her AAU club but not the U.S. National Team, had similar sentiments. "I think some people misunderstood the Code of Conduct," the silver-toothed 15-year-old sensation said Friday night from her home in Nashville, Tenn., "because it was after the last day of competition and everything...