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...family income is $7,000 a year. There are no jobs to be had here mowing lawns on weekends; there are no lawns. There are no newspaper racks either. People, if they can read at all, read in Spanish. Logan Heights is a transitional point between Mexico and the interior of the U.S. Immigrants stop here before moving up, not to the middle class but to Los Angeles...
...case. Faced with the need to save money and increase production, especially of energy resources, the President is more interested in developing land than in preserving endangered animals or ecosystems. Since coming into office he has appointed people with a strong prodevelopment bias to the top environmental jobs. Interior Secretary James Watt, who as a Colorado lawyer used to battle the department he now heads, is only the most prominent example. Another Coloradan, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Anne Gorsuch made it a practice, as a state legislator, to oppose the EPA'S hazardous-waste and car-emission rules...
...Administration's budget requests for fiscal 1982, the $14 billion Carter allocated for environmental programs has been trimmed to $11.9 billion. Reagan's economic package slashes funding for the three main agencies charged with protection of the environment: $887 million, or 13.4%, from the Department of the Interior; $2.7 million, or 72%, from the Council on Environmental Quality; and $3.9 million, or 74%, from the Environmental Protection Agency. The proposed cuts will hit heavily at such things as coastal zone management, wildlife protection, and development of water resources-except in Western states, where financing for water projects...
...cocaine trade in Bolivia has boomed since the military coup of July 1980. CBS' 60 Minutes recently provided ample documentation that top-ranking members of the military are closely associated with the elite group which controls the drug traffic. Minister of Interior Colonel Luis Arce Gomez, for example, is part owner of an air freight company which makes weekly flights to an unknown location in Colombia. In February, his plane was found to be carrying 300 kilos of cocaine, but Arce avoided conviction. Arce's yearly income from cocaine was estimated at half a million...
...fuselage. The outside of the Goose is a beautiful white, though it was aluminum colored when it flew. The ribbing inside looks like metal, but it is in fact neither metal nor spruce but laminated birch stuck together with glue. Everything is enormously outsize. At their thickest point the interior of the wings is 11 ft. high. A big man can walk out easily inside the wings to inspect the eight 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney engines, the largest radial engines ever built. For that matter, it is possible to crawl up inside the rudder structure...