Word: virginia
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When he was charged last December with extorting a $25,000 contribution, West Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore Jr., charged in turn that John A. Field III, the Federal prosecutor pressing the case, was conducting "a vicious political vendetta" in order "to feed his personal ambitions." Last week the Republican Governor stood vindicated after a jury in Charleston, W. Va., found him innocent. Said a tearful, defiant Moore: "An apology is due the citizens of this state...
...strict enforcement of the service's original charter. The Organic Act of 1897 specifically permits logging in national forests-but only of "dead, matured or large growth" trees that have been individually marked for cutting. In 1973 the Izaak Walton League sued to halt clear-cutting in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest. Since clear-cutting means the chopping down of every single tree in a given area, including young ones, the court decided against the Forest Service...
...timber interests, has been reported out of the Senate Interior and Agriculture committees. Despite some safeguards, its main thrust is to direct the Forest Service to issue guidelines for timber management-thus giving it a free hand to do business as usual. The other bill, sponsored by West Virginia Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph, would set controls on timbering and specifically limit clear-cutting to 25-acre plots in national forests. A fight is expected on the Senate floor later this month...
After four months of deliberation, a federal grand jury last week took action in Virginia's notorious Kepone scandal, in which 70 people involved in the production of the pesticide were poisoned and the James River was polluted by the substance (TIME, Feb. 2). In what may well prove to be a landmark action, the jury indicted a chemical company, the owners of another chemical firm and the city of Hopewell, Va., on a record number of charges of violating federal antipollution laws...
Kirchner, who supervised Street's graduate work in composition, said that many prominent musicians have expressed interest in the preceptorship, including Leonard Shure, Virginia Eskin, James O. Buswell IV '70, and Ruth Laredo...