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...battle in his long struggle to save Florida's Everglades National Park. The threat to the unique aquatic park was a huge proposed airport that would have polluted the Everglades' chief watershed. Now, the Departments of Interior and Transportation are expected to conclude an agreement with the Dade County Port Authority to move the encroaching airport (plus a small training strip already built on the site) far from the Everglades...
...example-tended to support the Viet Nam war, while the critics were concentrated at Berkeley, Harvard, Michigan, Wayne State and Oberlin. A revolution was deemed necessary by a majority at Berkeley and at predominantly black Morehouse, but there were few such extreme radicals to be found at Alabama, Miami-Dade Junior College or-surprisingly-Harvard...
...University of Alabama, University of California (Berkeley), California Institute of Technology, Duke University, Harvard, University of Kansas, Miami-Dade Junior College, University of Michigan, Morehouse College, University of Notre Dame, Oberlin College, Smith College, University of Texas (Austin) and Wayne State University...
These situations illustrate the social cost of a financial disaster: the near-collapse of the municipal bond market. Other results include a scaling down of planned airport improvements in Los Angeles, an increase in three-shift classroom sessions in the schools of Dade...
...repair its image, the Dade County Port Authority recently hired former Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall and his new environmental-consulting firm, Overview Group, to study the impact of an airport and seek alternatives. Udall says that he refused to take the job until the Port Authority promised to freeze jetport construction after the first runway, and showed itself sincerely open-minded on optional sites for a commercial terminal. "We are not going to justify a decision already made," said Udall. "We're hoping to establish planning parameters for the entire southern Florida environment." But Port Director Alan...