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Water & Air. The President announced that he will soon send Congress a bill to establish a "national wild-rivers system." The time has come, he said, "to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great scenic rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory." The President also put his weight behind efforts to clear Washington's own river, the Potomac, of unsightly debris-such as the rusty aquatic junkyard of gutted World War I ships at La Plata, Md. Water pollution from both sewage and industrial waste, said the President, has reached...
Genuine Service. The U.S. is prepared to spend up to $2 billion on the project. It does not demand absolute sovereignty, will welcome international or inter-American administration of the waterway. For its money, the U.S. will insist that the canal be a genuine public service to the world, operated, as is the present canal, on the basis of guaranteed access without discrimination for all nations at fixed, reasonable rates. Panama would profit from a major share of the tolls and a powerful voice in the administration, to say nothing of greater trade, tourism, and a dozen other benefits...
...additional $5.8 billion that will be needed to finish the 41,000-mile federal highways system. It also asks $240 million more in taxes on aviation fuels and the flourishing air-freight business, and a continuation of the 5% surcharge on airline passenger tickets. Truckers, airlines and inland-waterway operators, the last of which would have to pay a new fuel tax amounting to $7,000,000 a year, will probably oppose most of the measures, as they have before. If Congress approves the new charges, however, the operators may pass along many of them to their customers...
...Pacific without need of locks. One is a 95-mile route in northwest Colombia, another a 168-mile route slicing through Costa Rica and Nicaragua: the remaining two are in Panama itself-one running 60 miles through the southern Darien wilderness and the other, the present 51-mile waterway, which would need considerable widening and deepening to eliminate the locks. Johnson gave no hint as to which route the U.S. preferred, saying only, "I have asked the Secretary of State to begin discussions immediately with all the governments concerned...
France considers the Moselle Waterway so valuable that it paid a handsome price: Paris agreed to foot two-thirds of the bill and renounced its claims to the Saar; Germany paid only one-third of the cost, though nine-tenths of the canal flows through its territory. When the project is linked up with the Sâone and Rhône rivers through a complex system of canals, it will provide an unbroken waterway from Marseille to Rotterdam, a route first visualized by the Roman generals Nero Claudius Drusus and Gaius Antistius Vetus some 2,000 years...