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...earthquake-prone floor of the Santa Barbara Channel is such a geologically unstable morass of cracks and fissures that it may be difficult to prevent future oil-well blowouts. Moreover, Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel recently approved a resumption of drilling in the channel. Reason: a special presidential panel recommended further drilling to relieve the pressure that pushed the oil to the surface. While some critics dispute this approach, a consortium of four oil companies (Union, Gulf, Mobil, Texaco), soon to be joined by Sun Oil, continues to pump 30,000 barrels of oil a day from the waters...
...Billion Lawsuit. Last week the California state assembly voted unanimously to request the Federal Government to halt all drilling in the channel. The state senate is expected to follow suit. Maine's U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie has also introduced a bill in Congress that would permit the Federal Government to buy back the channel oil leases. Other pending bills would transfer the offshore leases to federal oil reserves elsewhere. Skeptics question whether the Government would give up such a rich source of revenue: the oil companies have already paid $603 million for drilling rights off Santa Barbara...
...games would be taped and shown on a special television network-either free or paid, it does not matter. Continuous broadcast of pro games on this channel would enable the fans to see all the games he wants to see, instead of being frustrated by the arbitrary sports programming choices of the current network moguls. The nation's voracious appetite for pro football would thus, for the first time in history, stand a chance of being satisfied...
...Secretary-General of the ruling Labor Party. He has been speaking out more forcefully than any other major political figure in Israel. As top executive of the 300,000-member party, a post once held by Premier Golda Meir, Russian-born Eliav, 48, feels that he now has "the channel to disseminate my ideas." In Tel Aviv last week, he told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin about those ideas, which include some radical proposals for unilateral Israeli concessions to the Arabs...
...Global Village our video environment, reflects in its structure our concept of the medium. It is a multi-channel, multi-sensory experience of video and kinetics. Entertainment and information exchange merge... an overload is triggered and from it a refracted image of our time is created...