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Field & Stream (circ. 1,860,000), a monthly devoted to duck hunting, fishing and other woodsy pursuits, hardly seems like a cockpit of ideological controversy. Yet in recent weeks its owner, the Columbia Broadcasting System, has been the target of angry letters and calls from the environment and conservation lobbies. Some of the protests came from members of Congress, including Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Conservation and Natural Resources. Then 50 irate conservationists waved placards in front of CBS's Washington office. Cause of the wrath: the firing of Field & Stream's widely known conservation...
Police Officers Donald Quinn and Jimmy Schulla from the first precinct, sent to watch the demonstration, said the protest was "duck soup." "The thing has gone beyond the busing issue; the solution is quality education. Why didn't they bus the teachers?" Schulla said...
...disruptive return from a prospecting expedition, a brother who wants to quit the local high school because Truckie is coming back to it ("you'll be the only student with wrinkles"), and the death of his little sister's favorite pet, Jonathan Livingston Duck. Truckie's method of handling all this would make Walton's mountain collapse. He brawls lustily with his father, and tricks his brother (Mark Hamill) into a return to scholarship. Instead of giving the distraught little girl a homely homily on mortality, he breaks her grief with a tall story. "Poor Ducky...
...waters in the Gulf of Suez, Israeli Hornet patrol boats confronted them. What could the Russians do to rid themselves of the pesky Israelis? The Soviet captain finally decided on an unusual tactic: he had his crew fire water cannons at the Israeli boats, causing them to duck out of range. But they remained on station, and the Soviets finally left the same day. Israel has complained to the U.N. for weeks about territorial violations by Soviet sweepers and helicopters, and is keeping in touch with Washington on the spraying incident. Clearly in no mood to take a hosing from...
...whom inherited the presidency, and "make it on his own." He may also have wanted to assure Republican conservatives, some of whom only tolerate Rockefeller, that Ford intends to head the ticket. Whatever the case, the declaration erased any weakness he might have had as a possible lame-duck President in his dealings with Congress and the Republican Party...