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Finally, he agreed to attend the environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro in mid-June, but only after the U.S. watered down the proposed global-warming convention that is to be signed there. And he approved his Interior Department's plan to override the Endangered Species Act to permit logging in ancient forests on some federal tracts that are home to the rare northern spotted owl. Bush still intends to campaign as the Environment President, one aide said, but "he understands that owls don't vote, and loggers...
GIVEN WHAT GEORGE BUSH WAS looking for, Manuel Lujan Jr. was the ideal choice for Secretary of the Interior. During 20 years in Congress, the New Mexico Republican had remained largely invisible despite a dismal record on environmental issues. A gracious man, Lujan always kept his door open, even when his mind was closed. He was wary of environmentalists and the Endangered Species Act and eager to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. His pro-business credentials were impeccable: he would fend off any serious challenge to sweetheart deals on public lands for oil, mining, timber...
...some instances served him and his department well. Among the bright spots of his administration have been his efforts to upgrade schools for Native Americans, to get a higher return for the government from private concessions operating in federal parks, to protect historical battlefields and to improve Interior's record on minority hiring. He halted the privilege enjoyed by some in Congress and the Executive Branch of using national-park cottages and lodges, off limits to the public, for personal vacations...
...practice in 1988, local officials granted him every permit he needed to start business. But when he purchased a small commercial building last year and made plans to relocate his Gulf Coast Women's Clinic, he got a different reception. In January, when he applied for a permit for interior reconstruction, Harrison County code administrator Ben Clark told Booker he had learned that abortion was part of Booker's practice. The permit was denied...
...conversation I learned that BKA had serious concerns that the drug sting operation originating in Cyprus had caused the bomb to be placed on the Pan Am plane." Mayer and Pinsdorf gave depositions last year at the request of Pan Am. But the German Federal Ministry of the Interior ruled they couldn't discuss law-enforcement matters relating to other nations. Mayer did say he knew Coleman...