Environment: Week's Watch

From the Western White House in San Clemente, Calif., President Nixon in 1969 gazed down the 6½ miles of adjacent beach held by the U.S. Marine Corps, Camp Pendleton and mused that the public should have use of it. Last week he followed through, asking the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to approve giving the beach to California. It was, he said, the first of several planned transfers of $6.8 billion worth of "excess" federal property to state and local governments for recreational and other uses. Others now under consideration are in Long Island, N.Y., San Francisco and Seattle.

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