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...nation's air quality would continue to improve, but "at a more reasoned pace." Environmentalists immediately assailed the plan. Said Richard Ayres, chairman of the National Clean Air Coalition: "This is a sugar-coated prescription for dirty, unhealthy air." Reagan defended his environmental policies and those of beleaguered Interior Secretary James Watt last week, branding critics "environmental extremists." Said he: "What Watt's trying to do is a little bit like getting a mule's attention-you hit him in the forehead with a two-by-four first...
...directly involved; for that matter, it has never been established to what degree he was connected to the Black September organization in the past. Experts on terrorism believe that the leader of the revived group is Salah Khalaf, better known as Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s "Interior Minister" and, as it happens, one of Arafat's top aides. In September 1970, Abu Iyad first launched the Black September terrorist group as a result of bitter fighting that year between Palestinian fedayeen and Jordan's King Hussein, a conflict that had led to the P.L.O.'s expulsion...
...most remote Brittany fishing village to the tiniest French Alpine hamlet, no local matter is too minor to escape the attention of the Paris government. The Atlantic coastal town of Saint-Palais-sur-Mer wants to extend a street? It needs the signatures of the Minister of the Interior and the Premier before the asphalt can be poured. A poultry association in the small Vendee city of Challans wants to produce Christmas turkeys? It must satisfy the Ministry for Agriculture that its birds meet national standards. And so it has long been in France, the Western nation with the most...
...problems produced a Cabinet shuffle that unseated three ministers. Among them was Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, who was reportedly sacked for failing to produce an economic recovery program. Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski, an army general, turned to two fellow officers to fill vacant posts: General Czeslaw Kiszczak as Interior Minister, and General Tadeusz Hupalowski as Minister of Administration...
...Socialist government would track down and extradite ETA terrorists taking refuge on French soil. Previous French governments were reluctant to cooperate, fearing that some of the people requested by the Spanish might be political dissidents, not terrorists. Last week French officials continued to be wary. Gaston Defferre, the Interior Minister, has gone so far as to declare that the war against the ETA in Spain is "political." Despite continuing pressure from Madrid, the French have still not agreed to the extradition proposal...