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...antiwar protesters-turned out to rally and march for Calley. "The President sort of took the steam out of people," said Terry Repsher, a Houston high school junior. Dallas, however, bloomed with bumper stickers demanding: WHY CALLEY? A giant pro-Calley billboard blossomed in Bridgeport, Conn. But from the Timber Ridge School in Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb, 41 students wrote Nixon: "We are ten and eleven years old and afraid to grow up in America if a murderer is considered a hero...
According to a 1960 federal law, the 154 national forests in the U.S. must be used for multiple purposes-recreation, timbering, grazing, wildlife preservation, watershed protection. But the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the Agriculture Department that manages national forests, has lately given top priority to private logging on public land. The service's budget is hiked when it does more timber business. Furthermore, President Nixon has ordered a 60% increase in the logging of national forests in order to meet a goal of 26 million new housing units...
...result, the Forest Service has increasingly endorsed "clear-cutting," an efficient logging method that involves cutting down all timber, after which a denuded area is replanted with the most marketable species. Is this good or bad for the country's 182 million acres of national forests...
...bunch of "protection" racketeers. But on Luzon, several hundred members of a Maoist New People's Army wage intermittent guerrilla war against the central government. On Mindanao, some 2,000 people died during the past year in clashes between private armies of Christians and Moslems over land and timber holdings. In Manila, during the last three months, leftist students allied with striking workers have staged a series of demonstrations, which left nine people dead and hundreds injured...
...took over as president, the company has spread from lumber into other building materials, paper, packaging, office supplies, factory-built houses, on-site houses, apartments and mobile homes. Almost all of Hansberger's 35 mergers have been with firms related in one way or another to timber or its uses. Even last year's acquisition of San Diego-based CRM Inc., a publisher of magazines (Psychology Today) and textbooks, fits the pattern. A Harvard Business School graduate, Hansberger was so successful in filling his headquarters in Boise, Idaho, with imaginative young men from elite business schools that other...