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Some opposition is simply competitive. In Maine, says Penobscot Tribal Governor Timothy Love, state officials "looked the other way until the Elks, the V.F.W and the Knights of Columbus all started ranting and raving about us." Not far from the Barona reservation in California, Lemon Grove V.F.W. Officer W. Happy Blake says his bingo take has withered by 75%. "I'm still holding on, but just barely...
OFFICE ADDRESS: Penobscot Bay Medical Center, Rockland, Maine...
OCCUPATION: Pathologist; laboratory director, Penobscot Bay Medical Center, Rockland. Maine...
...reduced from 29,000 tons in 1972 to just 790 tons by 1979 in Massachusetts, from 41,000 to 3,500 in Maine and New Hampshire, and from 139,000 to 82,000 in previously hazy Detroit. In one of the many rivers cleaned up under EPA rules, the Penobscot in Maine, one salmon was caught in all of 1970, but nearly one a day by 1978. Under EPA pressure, corporate dumping of toxic wastes into the Gulf of Mexico has dropped from an authorized 1.4 million tons in 1973 to zero...
...focus of yesterday's protest included two bills that would eliminate the land claims of the Passama quoddy and Penobscot tribes in the state of Maine...