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My environmentalist friends assure me that the pulp mills would 

 continue to operate despite the unilateral abrogation of these con- 

 tracts. I suggest that this is disingenuous in the extreme. The void- 

 ing of the contracts by the U.S. Government could be interpreted 

 in only one way by the other parties: The volume of wood required 

 for economic operation of the mills not only will not be guaranteed 

 but, by inference from the fact of cancellation, the necessary 

 timber will actually be denied. 



Thank you. 



Senator Wirth. Thank you very much, Mr. Poulson. 



[The prepared statement of Mr. Poulson follows:] 



