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...rejected the chief alternative to the Storm King project-using gas turbines to cope with peak electrical demand...
Hindu-Moslem enmity has been a factor in Indian life since the beginning of the tenth century. Two decades ago, it reached a peak when more than 100,000 people died in the wake of partition. Religious fanatics still stir up trouble, and police intelligence is usually not good enough to head it off. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi blamed the Hindu nationalist party, Jana Sangh, and its paramilitary arm, the Rashtrya Sewak Sangh (R.S.S.), for the latest bloodbath. "Is it a coincidence," she asked, "that when people who belong to the R.S.S. or the Jana Sangh go somewhere, soon afterward...
Since 1962, the U.S. armed forces have sprayed (or dumped in haste) about 13.5 million gallons of potent chemicals from low-flying planes (see color pages). The peak of the program came in 1967-68, when 400 defoliation sorties were flown monthly. Now considerably reduced to a "classified" number of missions, the program continues under the ironic code name "Operation Ranch Hand." To date, the herbicides have affected an estimated five million acres, including 500,000 acres of rice and other crops...
...vote was more or less overwhelming," manager Luther Clark said last night. "The spirit of the team just wasn't the way it used to be, and we all figured it would be too bad to lose to Dartmouth after reaching a peak in the Princeton game," he added...
...second time in one week: this time, they had been accompanied by American advisors, equipment, and tactical bomber support. In recent weeks, Nixon had came under heavy Congressional fire for his escalation of the conflict in Laos, and criticism of the President's "Laotian strategy" reached its peak with the embarrassing revelation that, contrary to the Administration's contention, one American advisor and twenty-six American civilims had been killed in ground conflict with insurgent forces in that country...