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...Egyptians were too late. The Israelis are securely dug in along the canal, in what they call the "Barlev Line," named for Chief of Staff Haim Barlev. It consists of multistory bunkers equipped with electric lights and even television and roofed with a "secret" material (possibly a combination of timber, sand and steel rails ripped up from the trans-Sinai railway line), which the Israelis claim can withstand a direct hit from a 130-mm. shell-one reason why their casualties were so light. If the shelling continues, the Israelis warned last week, they have no intention of sitting tight...
...protectionists. The U.S., however, has pressured Europe's Common Market and Japan to impose "voluntary" quotas on steel exports, and Nixon has made clear that he favors similar quotas for textiles. Another threat to free trade comes from home builders and lumbermen, who want the U.S. to curb timber exports to Japan. Partly because of high Japanese demand for U.S. lumber, domestic prices have risen by nearly 100% in the past year, increasing the average cost of a new house...
...peasants enjoyed the unusual experience of being virtually unpoliced. Most of them took advantage of Peking's inattention to indulge in economic "crimes" of one sort or another, such as expanding their private plots at the expense of commune lands, or chop ping down state-owned timber, or with holding some grain from the government. To end this lax state of affairs, the regime has now sent thousands of "Mao Tse-tung's Thought Propaganda Teams" into the countryside. Kwangtung province alone has mobilized 50,000 industrial workers and 280,000 peasants for the heroic propaganda and purification...
...quizzing Hickel closely about some of his ill-considered statements about conservation (TIME, Jan. 17). In explaining what he meant by saying there was no merit in "conservation for conservation's sake," Hickel said that he had been thinking of the "millions and millions of board feet of timber rotting in Alaska." When he said that stringent water-pollution standards would hinder industry, he was again thinking of Alaska and its abundance of clear rivers. In fact, admitted Hickel, many of his statements-notably his remark that he could do more for Alaskans in Washington than in Juneau-were...
...impatient to tap its latent wealth. There is so much of Alaska for so few Alaskans that they have never seemed to care very much whether some of the state's 586,400 sq. mi. are despoiled in the rush to unlock its treasure chest of oil, metals, timber and fish. In that respect, Hickel, who had acquired more than $14 million in housing, hotels and natural-gas holdings before his election in 1966, is not notably different in outlook from most of his fellow Alaskans...