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Dumping bilge oil at sea is a naval routine as old as diesel-powered ships. But when Navy ships recently dumped 637,000 gal. of sludge and oil off Mayport, Fla., threatening resort beaches along the Florida coast, the public outcry was heard in Washington. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee chaired by Senator Edmund Muskie last week, Navy Secretary John H. Chafee frankly admitted that the dumpings violated "the spirit and intent of legislation signed by the President [the Envfronmental Protection Act of 1970] only eight months ago." The Navy, he promised, will belay such practices from now on. Still...
...some disorder seems inevitable because of the country's Jurassic judicial system. By Deputy Fortuna's reckoning, 4,000,000 men and women living together illegally and their 1,000,000 children-one-tenth of the entire population-are "matrimonial outlaws." Among those who have had to resort to fancy foreign legal footwork to avoid being cast as bigami are Vittorio De Sica, who became a French citizen and got a French divorce to marry his second wife, and Carlo Ponti, who went the same route to wed Sophia Loren. Under the new law, Gina Lollobrigida can Italianize...
could surely arrange a permit. The last resort was the Bureau of Foreign Correspondence in Athens which rejected the request on the grounds that our effort was non-professional, i.e., we weren't NBC. The real reason was most probably that official opinion opposes the idea that minorities such as the Vlachs exist in Greece. Only Greeks could live in Greece...
City officials denied a permit to set up the VSC table in front of City Hall. One NDAG member said, "If it involves civil disobedience to operate the table, then we may have to resort to it. Just what form it might take has not been decided...
...this was to come with the evening. During the day, one of those coolish Miami November afternoons this resort's residents never advertise, the party's guests of honor were cooped up in their Seacoast Towers apartment, trying to rest up for the night ahead, waiting for the planes to arrive with all their relatives from up north...