March 21, 1972

Interior Dept says no single pipeline system can be built to tap Alaska's oil riches without damage or potential threat to environment, environmental impact statement on trans‐Alaska pipeline; says no alternative is economically more feasible than trans‐Alaska system; says development of Alaskan oil is important natl security objective to lessen dependence on foreign oil; makes no recommendation on whether Fed construction permit should be issued; appears to indicate route through Canada would be less damaging to environment but expresses no preference; says alternative routes, such as those to Redoubt Bay, Whittier, Seward, Haines and points on Bering Sea, have been considered along with alternate routes through Canada; indicates trans‐Alaska pipeline gives promise of delivery of significant amt of N Slope oil to 48 states by ‘75; says this would be earlier than alternative route through Mackenzie Valley; says no formal application for Canadian route has been made and that detailed design and engineering work has not been done; indicates Canadian route would be less environmentally damaging to environment because it would share common land with other proposed pipelines; Under Sec Pecora says no further public hearings are necessary because there has been ample opportunity for substantive comment prior to issuance of final impact statement, news conf, Washington; says Sec Morton feels hearings would probably be a ‘circus'; says Morton will discuss statement with Environmental Quality Council; says he does not know whether discussed Morton dicussed statement with Nixon; illus; reptdly any decision on pipeline permit will be fully covered by White House before Morton makes announcement; Wilderness Soc, Friends of the Earth and Environmental Defense Fund assert environmental implications and widespread public concern make public hearings imperative, telegram to Pres Nixon; hold without hearings there can be no meaningful citizen involvement in decision to issue permit; call for minimum of 60 days to study voluminous rept; map of proposed trans‐Alaska route to Valdez and alternate routes to other ports and through Canada

NYC's welfare problem is being exacerbated by continued addition of drug addicts to city's welfare rolls; Human Resources Admr Sugarman says addicts on rolls are increasing at rate of 1,400 per mo, situation that has brought public assistance ‘to the verge of serious breakdown'; article presents statistics on narcotics‐related crimes and deaths and cost of therapeutic programs; addicts illus at welfare center

US Sup Ct agrees to rev ‘66 Sup Ct's controversial Miranda v Ariz decision on confessions; ‘66 ruling held that suspects must be advised of their rights before interrogation or their confessions may not be used in ct; Ct agrees to hear appeal brought by prosecutors in Phila, objecting to decision by Pa Sup Ct in favor of P D Ware, who confessed to 4 murders in ‘63; State Ct had ruled that Miranda decision precluded use of his confessions; details

Large time bomb explodes in crowded Donegall St, Belfast, killing 6 and injuring 146; many victims went to scene after misleading telephone calls warned that bombs were set to explode in nearby sts; explosion is said to be worst daylight bombing since crisis began in Ulster; Brit soldier in Londonderry is killed by sniper; is 55th soldier killed since Brit troops were deployed in province in ‘69, and together with those who died in Donegall Street, raises death toll in last 3 yrs to 286; security spokesman says immediate suspects in Belfast bombing are IRA provisional wing members; there is some speculation that in view of expected announcement by Brit Govt of reforms for Ulster, bomb might have been intended to stress that IRA is interested only in removing Brit troops from Ulster; others see explosion as response to growing movement by right‐wing Prots who are concerned that Brit reforms may go too far in meeting Cath demands for end to internment; speakers at recent anti‐internment rally in Belfast said they were not frightened by threats from right‐wing Prots and promised Cath backlash to counter any sectarian violence; tally of deaths from shootings and bombings in Ulster since ‘69; illus of bombing site

Nixon in NYC for drug conf with Gov Rockefeller and other NYS officials; illus with Rockefeller