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Appearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Utah's Democratic Governor Scott Matheson and Nevada's Republican Governor Robert List attacked the Administration's plans to install in their states the new mobile MX missile that is billed as the nation's most important ICBM of the future. Both men feared that the $34 billion missile system would do irreparable harm to their states...
...tracks would be scattered over 45,000 sq. mi. of federally owned land in the Great Basin desert of Utah and Nevada. Matheson and List urged Congress to reconsider the sites because of the damage the project would cause the fragile ecosystem of the area. They were particularly concerned that the construction would increase an already severe water shortage. In addition, Matheson claimed, the invasion of the construction crews would change forever what he called "the chosen way of life" of people in the region's tiny rural communities. Beyond their plea to Congress, the Governors plan to wage...
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...Reagan's ideological cohort-men like Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms-could never accept the know-it-all interloper. They kept sniping at him. They complained that while Sears was vainly trying to win over Eastern moderates, he was alienating the conservative faithful. They blamed Sears for a TV ad in which Reagan commented on economic policy: "We have to move ahead, but we can't leave anyone behind." Griped a Reagan operative: "It made Reagan sound like a liberal...
...years ago, the answer might have been an unequivocal yes. After all, Psychologists Allen and Beatrice Gardner of the University of Nevada had managed in the late 1960s to teach the chimp Washoe to use 132 signs; the precocious animal was even credited with having invented a phrase of her own, water bird for swan. About the same time, David Premack, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, using plastic symbols of different shapes and colors to represent words, taught his prize pupil, Sarah, some 130 words and reported that she had also mastered some phrases. At the Yerkes...