Environment: Week's Watch

> As a campus issue, environmental degradation has attracted countless student radicals. Now the honeymoon may be over. At the University of Michigan teach-in last week, dissident blacks insisted that ecology is a mere diversion from more pressing issues. "There are 50 bills in the legislature on environmental problems," said one black speaker, "but none on the rats in Detroit, Flint and Jackson." Viet Nam activists are beginning to suspect that the war is also being forgotten because of increasing emphasis on the environment. To refocus discontent on Viet Nam and racial...

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