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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Bayh once in 1980. The general view was that both men underestimated him and were beaten by him. Dan Evans, Quayle's 1980 manager, says he was effective against Bayh because he was not being "handled," as in 1988 -- the Nancy Reagan excuse about debate "overpreparation." But Quayle needed help in 1988, when he was on the defensive from the outset. Indiana reporters say that even now he has not regained the confidence and ease he showed in his earlier campaigns...
...Stasi has been disbanded, although a few dozen former officials remain on the payroll to help a 100-member citizens' oversight committee supervise storage of dossiers on an estimated 5 million individuals. The supervision has not been leakproof: two prominent politicians were ruined by disclosures that they served as Stasi informants, and ex-agents are suspected of providing the damaging leaks. There are also rumors that a ring of former Stasi agents is using the files to blackmail ex-informers...
Ngau, now 30, became concerned about logging in the late 1970s when its devastating effects began to become apparent. In 1982 he set up a branch of Friends of the Earth in Sarawak to help preserve the forests the Penans call "our bank and our shops." Ngau and his colleagues became investigators, exposing links between logging companies and politicians. Later, when the Penans found the courts stacked in favor of timber interests, they took the desperate step of blockading logging roads. Ngau and Friends of the Earth provided legal help and made the Penans' plight the focus of international protests...
...make change is to do it on the local level and move up," says Gibbs, 38. Two of her biggest battles at the moment: protecting some 250 members of the mining community of Kellogg, Idaho, where lead has been leaching from an old Gulf Resources smelter, and trying to help 400 families living near five toxic lagoons at the Mill Service dump site in Yukon...
...stores, most of them franchises, for a discount on the next purchase. The shops boast distinctive wood decoration, but endangered tropical hardwoods are banned. Store-window displays protest the slaughter of whales and the dumping of wastes in the North Sea, and leaflets urge customers to help save the ozone layer. Roddick insists that her stores use recycled paper for everything from stationery to toilet tissue...