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As Val Peterson put it: "It is no longer a question of whether planning and building is good or bad. It is being done. The question is, how and by whom?" And, since most of the money for the work must come from elsewhere in the nation, the entire U.S. has a great stake in the development program and the future of the Big Muddy's basin.
*This week a Senate Armed Services subcommittee charged that General Pick had not given the "full, frank and comprehensive" testimony during an investigation of the North African air base construction program. Pick replied that the report was "overly critical."