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Show I You Can Depend On It! I met Bill in 1967, and what -he told me spoke volumes about -some of the environmental pro-'grams pro-'grams now in vogue. Bill had Ibeen in the employ of the '.Bureau of Indian Affairs all his 3ife, and one day while passing the desk of his boss in the Arizona office happened to see a memo from Washington that told of a plan to have select wilderness areas traded off to the Empire of Japan in settlement settle-ment of our national debt to them. To Bill it seemed preposterous prepos-terous how could we possibly owe Japan anything? Frustrated and angry, he sought out his boss. That's when the anger changed places (See LETTERS on page 4A) Letters From Page Ik as Bill was told he had seen nothing, and to keep his mouth shut. : Two weeks later he was transferred to Armpit, Utah, and within another month was forced to retire early from BIA. No, .one in authority ever believed his story, but I did. What an ingenious plan, stir up a bunch of emotional folks who love to pet deer, enlist them to do the dirty work, get public lands declared sacred, then five years or so down the road your most unfavorite senator or representative repre-sentative gets a generous deposit in his off-shore bank account, from Japan, as that country in some mysterious way is given title to American lands. If Washington can conceive it, it can happen. You can depend on it. John Luke 29 Palms, Calif.Tropic |