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...Forests are vital watersheds that absorb excess moisture and anchor topsoil. Deforestation contributed to the recent droughts in Africa and the devastating mud slides in Rio de Janeiro last year. In Costa Rica topsoil eroded from bald hills has greatly shortened the life of an expensive hydroelectric dam. Alvaro Umana, Costa Rica's Minister of Industry, Energy and Mines, estimated that the surrounding watershed might have been protected 20 years ago for a cost of $5 million. Now the government must reforest the watershed at ten times that price...
...current bill, proposed by Senator Mario Umana, would circumscribe wire tapping with strict judicial limitations. An Attorney General or district attorney wishing to institute a wire tap would be required to apply to a superior or supreme court justice for an official order. The applicant would have to swear that the wire tap was likely to obtain specific evidence of a crime. Opponents of the measure have claimed that it would impede police investigation. But it is difficult to see how the act would hinder the conduct of a legitimate investigation. The wire tap authorization would be kept strictly secret...
Murphy, who is minority leader of the State House of Representatives, had been scheduled to speak at the forum, devoted to a discussion of "Democratic Prospects for 1954," along with Schlesinger and State Senator Mario Umana '36. Umana attended, but Democratic campaign headquarters told Young Democrats' President Frederick J. Willman '56 yesterday morning that previously arranged engagements would prevent Murphy from appearing...
Other candidates for state officer who received endorsement were Oan H. Fann '44, a former assistant Dean who is running for the state legislature: Foster Furcolo, Democratic candidate for state treasurer: Mario Umana of East Boston for State Senator and Representative James E o'Pea Jr. of Lowell for State Representative
Already members of the Liberal Union have been working in the campaign. Gwirtzman said that members have worked in the primary for Mario Umana who is seeking election to the State Senate from Boston. They are working for him in conjunction with the Massachusetts Chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action...