Word: valleys
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Every normal Norman, Parisian planners calculated, would be delighted to help pay for such a triumphal occasion. They were wrong. Nestled amid the knotty hedgerows and gnarled apple orchards of the lower Seine Valley lies the village of Veauville-les-Baons (pop. 353), which has not changed much since William's day-and to some extent, holds him responsible. According to Jean Comps, 54, village schoolmaster and official secretary (also renowned for his fine home-made Calvados), the liege lord of Normandy in 1060 forced Veauville to ante up an annual ten gold talents to the nearby abbey...
...brother Laurance, the commission urged that New York and New Jersey (which has 21 miles of the river's west bank) join with the Federal Government to form a Hudson River authority with major responsibility for cleaning up the river and ensuring orderly growth in the broad Hudson Valley. Estimated cost: $1.3 billion...
Brotherly Accord. Though a vital feature of the valley's rehabilitation would be public acquisition of some 100,000 acres at 150 scenic points (cost: $100 million), most of the commission's recommendations could be carried out through effective coordination of already existing programs, including New York's own $1 billion water-pollution campaign. Scenic easements, under which a property owner would be granted tax concessions if he agreed to keep his land undeveloped, could hold back industry from the shoreline and crowning highlands, at the same time keep the countryside in private hands. Intelligent zoning could...
...commission eschewed "czarlike powers" for the proposed Hudson authority, would indeed give it little more than the power of persuasion. Some conservationists contended that this might not be sufficient for an eleventh-hour rescue mission. Democratic Representative Richard Ottinger, who was elected on a plank of restoring the Hudson Valley, said that "with respect to the ambitions of certain special-interest groups, this is not enough." It was at least a hopeful beginning...
...Operation Double Eagle, dovetailing on the north with White Wing, made up of 5,000 U.S. Marines off amphibious assault craft driving south and west toward the Communist enclave of An Lao valley, with flanking support from 2,000 government soldiers...