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Does a poverty-stricken area need more industry or more conservation? Last year the usual answer-more industry-seemed obvious to South Carolina boosters. They cheered when West Germany's Badische Anilin-&-Soda Fabrik (B.A.S.F.), one of the world's biggest chemical manufacturers, announced plans to build a...
Nixon's program, designed by his Council on Environmental Quality, would use federal incentives and penalties. Washington would help the states start planning with grants totaling $140 million between July 1971 and July 1976. If the states failed to cooperate, they would lose 7% of their federal funds for...
Sir: With so many of the major cities of this country depressed up to their eyebrows despite highways unlimited, it makes no economic sense and even less conservation sense to support a program that will cost the Federal Government millions of dollars and do damage to the one outstanding feature...
LES ASPIN, 32, Democrat, Wis., has already been tagged the resident Whiz Kid. He has degrees from Yale and Oxford and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. He won on a platform of peace, conservation and economic welfare, but probably knows too much to get the seat he wants on...
Folk Cynicism. Good intentions are not enough to make a citizens' lobby effective. Some such efforts, Gardner concedes, have been "fumbling, inchoate, amateurish." He hopes that Common Cause will be different because of the special expertise and influence of its supporters, and because it is an idea whose time...