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...area that has been buried under a slag heap of red tape has been the environment. As part of his attempt to cut through this morass. President Reagan has made available substantial portions of previously preserved lands for development. To answer critics who complained of dwindling resources. Reagan said last March that "there is today in the United States as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge." Though the U.S. Forest Service places the figure at about 30 percent, the back yard of the Reagan memorial will have the 500 million acres of trees previously thought...
...guilty of several rather damning actions, few of them illegal but most of them certainly unethical. First and perhaps most depressing from the man who runs the Voice of America. Wick lied to New York Times reporter Jane Perlez and columnist William Safire when they questioned him about his taping activities. Although Wick had been taping conversations for some time and may well have carried about a tape device for use when away from the office, he denied to Safire and Perlez that he had ever taped without the consent of the caller, and then later conceded that he sometimes...
Last week Wick was back in the headlines, this time for covertly making tapes of his phone conversations. He at first denied that he secretly taped calls, but when the New York Times confronted him with the leaked transcripts of conversations with half a dozen notables, including Senator Mark Hatfield, Actor Kirk Douglas and former Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Annenberg, Wick admitted that he had "in haste" failed to inform a "small percentage" of his callers that they were being tape-recorded. He apologized, saying, "I can understand how some might feel that it was intrusive." Wick...
...furor over the disclosure is indicative of the growing sensitivity to the secret taping of phone calls both inside and outside government. The practice is "an offense against good reporting, against good business and particularly against good government," declares Times Columnist William Safire, who broke the story and who is still smarting from a wiretap of his own calls ordered by the Nixon Administration in 1969. Any surreptitious use of tape recorders is "flat wrong," says St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times Editor Eugene Patterson. "Bugging is bugging, no matter what you call it." Many major press organizations, including the Washington Post...
...been content to relax and let its dominance fade. Kodak spent much of the year preparing to invade the booming $9 billion market for home-video equipment. This week the company will launch its first attack, introducing a self-contained camera-videotape recorder that runs on narrow, 8-mm tape. The device will be smaller, lighter and easier to carry than most items now on the market, which use wider tape. Says Eugene Glazer, a leading photo-industry analyst for Dean Witter: "The new products are going to be very, very important. Small color-video-camera recorders will...