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...farming small plots, raising cows, pigs and chickens and fishing for oysters, shrimp and crabs. But in 1942 the Army began evicting the residents, paying them less than $10 an acre for their land, and built an emergency airbase. After the war, the 2,687 acres passed from one unit of Government to another; finally, in the early 1960s, the land was declared "surplus property" and turned into a federal haven for geese, ducks and deer. Apparently no one considered selling the land back to its original owners, many of whom were still living near by in trailers and small...
More than a month after the nation's worst nuclear accident, at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor, the lessons and the consequences continued to be explored. Items...
...greatest fears center on the herds of caribou, whose annual migrations across the arctic wastes began long before the first Siberians touched North America. Biologist David R. Klein of the Alaska Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit has already spotted trouble in a herd of some 6,000 caribou that has traditionally ranged north to south from the Arctic Ocean to the foothills of the Brooks Range. Since the coming of the pipeline, says Klein, cows with calves have shown a marked reluctance to pass under the raised stretches of the conduit and to cross the road itself. Migratory patterns also seem...
...teams of the far-left Red Brigades have killed a member of the DIGOS police intelligence unit in Milan, "kneecapped" a TV news editor in Turin and similarly wounded a local Christian Democrat official in Genoa. Bombs have demolished a Milan police station and two Rome offices of the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement. Then there has been the re-emergence of the Autonomisti, a semi-clandestine amalgam of Marxist student organizations...
Representatives of both sides met for the first time in Lebanon, in January. The P.L.O. security chief, Abu Hoal, assured a delegation from Bonn's antiterrorist unit that his organization was not harboring the Schleyer killers. Other discussions have followed, including a Beirut meeting two weeks ago between a legislator from Schmidt's Social Democratic Party and P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat. Bonn officials hope that such contacts will give West German terrorists a sobering sense of isolation. As for the Palestinians and the Libyans, they apparently want to dissociate themselves from pure anarchists like the Red Army Faction...