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Hasenfus said in Guatemala that Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge, who oversees the national penal system, had given him the key to his cell at Tipitapa prison, 12 miles east of Managua...
Congress has waited for Interior's decision since 1980, when it passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The legislation set aside more than 104 million acres of federal territory in Alaska for parks, refuges and wilderness areas, including the Arctic Refuge. But the lawmakers left undecided the fate of the coastal plain. Instead they authorized the Interior Department to determine the region's potential stores of oil and gas and make a detailed -- and expensive (about $45.5 million) -- assessment of the biological impact of tapping them...
...taken years of study for Interior to make this recommendation," says Joseph Lastelic, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute. "Development should be a high priority for this Administration. There is a lot of oil there." Other proponents of development cite the impressive conservation efforts made by industry at neighboring Prudhoe Bay, the nation's largest oil field. Even ardent environmentalists cannot disagree with that. Says Jay Hair, executive vice president of the National Wildlife Federation: "The oil industry spent the past 15 years profitably developing Prudhoe Bay and did a commendable job in protecting its wildlife resources...
Sources at Interior predict that years will pass before the debate is settled, and environmentalists are playing for time. Even if limited drilling is permitted by Congress, a decade could elapse before oil and gas companies emerge from the maze of additional environmental-impact studies that must be prepared prior to exploitation. By then, the refuge's defenders hope, Administration attitudes will be different...
...architectural turkeys by wearing its entrails outside its skin. Its architects, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, had festooned its four sides with such a tangle of ducts, pipes, risers and shafts that it became the first steel-and-glass building to exclude almost all natural light from its cavernous interior. Since Beaubourg was meant to be (in the jargon of the day) a culturally transparent, non-elitist, participatory, anti-hierarchical, modular omnisensorium, it had no walls to speak of: walls were for palaces and prisons. Instead it had temporary screens, on which its Matisses and Miros hung transfixed like rabbits...