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...scheme in California's Mineral King Valley until conservation groups can have their say in court. A six-lane highway planned to run along the Hudson River was stopped when conservationists cited an obscure law requiring congressional approval of any project involving a dike on an interstate navigable waterway...
...short trade route to the Orient, made the first unsuccessful attempt to sail through the frozen Arctic Ocean in 1498. Dozens of others-French, English and Portuguese-followed in his wake, but it was not until Norwegian Roald Amundsen piloted the small yacht Gjoa through the ice-choked waterway in 1906 that the Northwest Passage was finally discovered. Since then, only six vessels have completed the treacherous voyage, and the passage remains unused by the world's commerce...
...fish. There was, however, one possible benefit from last week's case of poisoning. It might well shock the four major Rhine countries-West Germany, The Netherlands, France and Switzerland-into adopting anti-pollution controls that could change the river back from a septic tank into the lovely waterway it once...
...Interstate Commerce Commission deserves every one of its superlatives: it is the oldest and largest of the federal regulatory agencies - and the most ineffective. Overseeing some 18,000 companies involved in transport by truck, rail, waterway and pipeline, the ICC regulates industries that account for 20% of the gross national product...
Even so, the Soviets remain wary and distrustful. When two lightly armed U.S. destroyers steamed into the Black Sea on a routine show-the-flag cruise, Moscow called it a "dangerous provocation"-even though the Black Sea is indisputably an international waterway open to ships of all nations. The Russians managed to sound especially self-righteous, since in recent weeks they have pulled back some 20 of the 52 ships from their flotilla in the Mediterranean. According to U.S. Navy officials, such sanctimoniousness on the part of the Russians is hardly justified; the Americans claim that the Communist admirals...