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...advocacy impressed Mayor John Lindsay, who asked Cuomo to mediate a dispute in Forest Hills, where middle-class, mostly Jewish families were opposed to the construction of high-rise public housing for low-income, mostly black families. Many political observers saw the assignment as political suicide, but for Cuomo it was a moral conundrum come to life, a test of neighborhood values versus civil rights. What Cuomo learned was that coming up with a simple, Solomonic solution (he proposed halving the size of the project) was a great deal easier than getting both sides to accept it. The resolution...
...foreign ministers of the six members of the 19-year-old Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)--Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Brunei. Early in his speech, Reagan told an anecdote about two men who are running away from a bear they encountered in a forest. When one man stops to put on his running shoes, the other asks incredulously, "You don't think that by putting on those shoes, you're going to outrun that bear?" To which the second man replies, "I don't have to outrun the bear. I only have to outrun...
Nuclear foes are clearly spoiling for a fight. That is nowhere more true than in West Germany, where confrontations between protesters and police have long been common. Says Dieter Kersting, a leading opponent of plans to build a fuel-reprocessing facility in a forest clearing near the Bavarian town of Wackersdorf: "The Chernobyl catastrophe clearly strengthens our position." Noting that officials have consistently called the chances of a meltdown virtually nil, Kersting added, "Who can believe those assertions...
...Forest rangers estimate that about 40 separate teams of treenapers are operating a $15 million-a-year black market in Colorado's renowned aspens. After the winter's last snowfall, but while the aspens are still dormant, the bandits uproot them and sell them to nurseries and landscapers for between $10 and $15 apiece, or door to door for up to $45. An industrious team can harvest as many as 30,000 saplings in a season. Who wants them? Says Forest Service Spokesman Hank Deutsch: "I guess a clump of aspen is a desirable attraction for people's yards...
...bandits use sophisticated techniques. Armed with radio scanners to keep track of Forest Service patrols, they drive into the forests by day and dig up hundreds of saplings. Then, after balling the roots in burlap, they ease the trees back into the ground and leave -- only to return at night, using infrared night-vision scopes, and load their booty into trucks. Says Timber Management Assistant Johnny Hodges: "We just find a lot of holes." That is easier than finding the diggers, who face a sentence of ten years and a fine of $10,000, the maximum penalty for stealing Government...