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...battle to save this southern jewel of the National Park System has stirred national concern. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt visited the park in February and came back "absolutely appalled." Since then he has endorsed the idea of reclaiming thousands of acres of private property to protect this prime parcel of public land, an approach that could signal a fundamental shift in the way U.S. parkland is managed. "We can't defend the Everglades -- or Yellowstone -- just at their boundaries," says Jim Webb, regional director of the Wilderness Society. "We have to deal with the whole ecosystem...
That's now. But George Bracksieck, editor of Rock & Ice magazine in Boulder, estimates that 100,000 new climbers are entering the sport each year. Gear sales and Interior Department figures suggest that 4.1 million people across the nation do some variety of mountaineering each year. Many of the newcomers arrive, wearing Lycra, by way of the local indoor climbing walls. Some won't get far from their cars, but others will sniff the wind blowing from the back country. Accident figures and rescue costs will rise...
...worried that it would bring a second wave of tax increases; it is expected to be off the agenda until late this summer, possibly next year. Meanwhile Clinton has indicated his willingness to compromise on gays in the military and gave further assurances, with last week's news of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt as a potential Supreme Court nominee, that the next high-court Justice will be a moderate...
...there is nothing any Cabinet Secretary is doing for the next two days that's more important than lobbying Congress." Working from White House lists of undecided lawmakers, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy telephoned farm-state Representatives. Defense Secretary Les Aspin worked Congressmen with major military installations in their states. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt buttonholed Western lawmakers. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen reasoned with the Texas delegation. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor concentrated on Californians. During the next two days, the Clinton Administration bought, rented and bartered for every vote it could find. One Cabinet officer described his mission plainly: "Find out what...
This is more than bluster. The deputies spend more time in the battle zones than in assembly meetings, and they share the same grim, heedless determination as the men guarding the bicycle path. "The reality on the ground," said Ratko Adzic, the Bosnian Serbs' designated interior minister, "is very different from what the politicians think...