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November/December 1973
 
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The Land Use Policy Act (S. 268), introduced for a second time by Sen. Henry Jackson, D.-Wash., passed the Senate 64 to 21, but awaits reconciliation with differing House proposals. If approved, participating states would share 100 million dollars to set up authorities to inventory land and resources, regulate sales and developments, control environmentally sensitive areas, influence locations of new communities and keep building in line with pollution laws.

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Local residents will have to be evacuated, according to New Scientist, a London publication, because fallout will travel more than 350 miles and secondary radiation could spread as far as 1,600 miles to the west. And what do the folks who live there think? Chow Chowkwanyum, a key figure in contract negotiations, complains, "Our problem is education. People have a particular fear of this type of device." Little wonder, Chow little wonder.

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