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This year is not shaping up any better. In Corpus Christi, Texas, last month, arsonists burned from one of the city's abortion clinics, along with four neighboring businesses in the same building. A new tactic is to spray the interior of clinics with butyric acid, a chemical that ruins carpets and furnishings and leaves behind a revolting stench. During one night last week, five San Diego clinics were made a stinking mess. "It smells like rancid meat and a sewer together. It's awful," says Ashley Phillips, whose WomanCare Clinic was one of those attacked...
...joins a Who's Who of U.S. companies entering or expanding in China. Among them are Motorola, McDonald's, Nike and Ford Motor. Coca-Cola greatly enhanced its Chinese presence by agreeing to build or upgrade 10 bottling plants in the interior of the country. And that's only a small start toward quenching a billion thirsts...
...Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt scans his vast office, then gazes down at the blue Republican carpet. He intends to tear the rug out, for it conceals a fine walnut floor installed during New Deal days by his conservationist hero, Harold Ickes. Not even the floor covering is beyond the scrutiny of Babbitt as he carries out vast changes in the Interior Department and in the government's philosophy toward its public lands. Where conservatives James Watt and Manuel Lujan once presided, Babbitt now speaks as if he were in a vanguard of liberators. "There has been an ideological war going...
...changes Babbitt seeks may touch 500 million acres of federal property, or about one-fifth of the U.S., encompassing national parks, wilderness areas, forests and grazing lands. With the blessing of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, the Interior chief plans to revitalize the National Park Service and increase the protection of endangered species. But his most politically complex mission is to scale back once sacred subsidies for those who use federal lands: miners, the timber industry, and cattle and sheep ranchers...
...Interior Department, long viewed as a captive of commodity interests, & has until now carried out a 19th century mandate to encourage resource exploitation in order to stimulate development of the West. Babbitt wants to emphasize protection of those lands and to demand that those who profit from them pay a fair share. All told, the fee increases he proposes would produce an estimated $1 billion over five years, which would help reduce the budget deficit as well as maintain the lands. Among the measures...