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...Malaysia and ambushed a police station. Unlike the northeast, where poor farmers were drawn to the Communists by promises of a better life, the south spawned guerrillas who concentrated their propaganda on government corruption. "The people in the south become Communists for revenge, not ideology," explains Uthai Hiruntoa, the Interior Ministry's director for rural development in the five southernmost provinces. "Fighting is intense today because the hatred is very strong...
...most intriguing moon is Enceladus, which seems to be caught in a kind of gravitational tug-of-war. Pulled by nearby moons, its interior heats up, causing surface fissures and creating glacier-like ice flows that obliterate craters made earlier in its turbulent history...
Secretary of the Interior Watt says that he doesn't "believe government should stand in the way of the free market." The notion of a free market first and the environment second creates the illusion that human beings are on this planet as landlords, not boarders. Such an anthropocentric view can only result in disaster. Government intervention is far preferable to the lack of concern for the environment that has been demonstrated by the free market...
...group of six Massachusetts investors approached the Essex Co., an old-line New England firm that had initially built and continued to own the dam, with a proposal to build a hydroelectric plant there. Company stockholders were receptive because the dam faced financial troubles. The Department of the Interior had ordered the company to construct a $1.5 million fish ladder to help the Merrimack River's growing schools of Atlantic salmon move upstream to spawn. The company stockholders agreed to sell out to the investment group, which later formed a partnership with E G & G, a Wellesley, Mass., energy...
Most opposition members liked neither the manner in which Interior Minister Gaston Deferre rammed the bill through nor its contents. Warned Conservative Charles Millon: "The disorganization that it will provoke augurs a renaissance of local feudalism...