Suit Tests Environment Protection Act Bite in 1969 Law
A federal judge weighs whether the Environmental Protection Act can curb a $387 million Tennessee Tombigbee waterway project. Environmental Defense Fund seeks a preliminary injunction until ecological impact studies are completed. The case questions impact statement timing, completeness, and whether projected benefits justify environmental damage. Construction slated for October. project envisions a nine-year canal across northeastern Mississippi linking the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers with nine dams and ten locks.
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Washington
Corps of Engineers
Environmental Defense Fund
Tennessee
Tombigbee
Florida
U.S. Dist
John Lewis Smith Jr
Council On Environmental Quality
Nixon
Fund
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
Mississippi
Tombigbee River
Ohio River
Gulf of Mexico
Erie County Eyes Water Authority to Fund Countywide System
Erie County Commissioner Leo Weir says action to form a county water authority is likely within two months to apply for state and federal funds for a countywide water distribution and sewage collection and treatment plan. The proposal envisions a Morgan System dam near Greene Township and a countywide coverage, with sewage to follow as a companion project.
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Erie County
Leo Weir
Erie County Water Authority
Weir
Greene Township
Japanese royalty tour Houston space center with Roosa guide
Prince Hitachi and Princess Hitachi visited NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. Apollo M4 astronaut Stuart A. Roosa led the tour and explained moon landing procedures with a full scale lunar lander model. The royals also viewed a spacesuit and moon rocks.
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Houston
Prince Hitachi
Hitachi
Manned Spacecraft Center
Stuart A. Roosa
Roosa
British Soldier Shot In Back In Ireland
A British soldier was critically wounded by a sniper in Londonderry as an outlawed dum-dum bullet was fired at an observation post near the Bogside. The army recovered the bullet and said its caliber was unclassified. The soldier was hospitalized in very serious condition. The incident followed fresh riots and a surge in IRA activity amid tense talks among Britain, Northern Ireland, and Ireland. Ulster Protestant leaders demanded Northern Ireland’s prime minister Faulkner quit or withdraw from talks with Lynch.
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Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Bogside
Atnagelvin Hospital
Irish Republican Army
Belfast
Springfield Road
Central Police
Newry
Irish Republic
Belleek
County Fermanagh
Britain
Edward Heath
Brian Faulkner
Jack Lynch
West Ulster Unionist Council
Faulkner
Ulster
Lynch
Kevin Boland
U S Delegate Maps Soviet Talks At UN
U S Secretary of State William P. Rogers will go to the United Nations for talks with Andrei A. Gromyko and other foreign ministers as the General Assembly considers China seating and a successor to U Thant. Rogers aims to push progress on SALT, U N reforms, budget cuts, and Middle East issues while preparing for backstage talks with Israelis and Egyptians. He will also discuss a European Security Conference and mutual troop reductions in Europe. The China seating issue looms, with Bush signaling a chance to keep Taiwan in the UN while Peking seeks a seat. Barbara Harris and Jack Lemmon will star in The War Between Men and Women for Cinema Center Films.
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Washington
William P. Rogers
United Nations
Russia
Andrei A. Gromyko
General Assembly
China
U Thant
U.N
Mideast
Rogers
Gromyko
Middle East
Helsinki
Washington-Moscow
Kremlin
Europe
Berlin
Alaska
Nixon
Japan
Hirohito
New York
U.S
Assembly
Peking
George Bush
Taiwan
Bush
CBS
Face the Nation
Chow Shu-kai
NBC
Meet the Press
Red China
Hollywood
Barbara Harris
Jack Lemmon
Cinema Center Films
James Thurber
Miss Harris
Lemmon
Behrend Becomes Full Four-Year Penn State Campus
Behrend Campus in Erie Pennsylvania resumes next Monday as the first Penn State branch to offer a four-year program. The four-year status brings an enlarged freshman class of about 800 and total fall enrollment near 2,600 with continuing education and graduate students. Two new buildings and a third dormitory open to handle the growth, as Behrend expands from a two-year to a four-year institution on the former Ernest R Behrend estate.
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Behrend
Pennsylvania State University
Erie
Pennsylvania
Penn State
Irvin H. Kochel
Ernest R. Behrend
Hammermill Paper Co
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SMN
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EPIC
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Rev. L. J Cherryholmes
Stor
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Corry Plaza
Che
East Pakistan
Calcutta
India
Pakistan
Frank’s
Hardwick
Pennsylvania Gas
Pardwick
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