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...Mikva ruling survives, a lower federal court will face a difficult choice: whether to remove the tax benefits given to veterans' organizations or to extend them to all charitable groups that lobby. The latter possibility naturally appeals to many organizations. Says Hope Babcock, a lawyer for the National Audubon Society: "Anything that will increase our ability to lobby will be beneficial." But the appeals court majority worried that enhancing this ability "might open a Pandora's box of woes and abuse." The IRS recognizes 328,000 charitable groups whose voices are now muted. Erasing the rule would doubtless...
...White House on matters of substance, though not of style. In seeking to redress what he calls the "environmental extremist" bias of the past, he has alienated not only liberal environmentalist groups like the Sierra Club but such conservative organizations as the National Wildlife Federation and the National Audubon Society. Even the Los Angeles Times, which endorsed Reagan's candidacy and his pro-development policy, has called for Watt's resignation...
Hoping to prevent the condor's "rapidly approaching extinction," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Audubon Society presented the state of California with a radical proposal. Under its three-year plan, 21 condors would be trapped, nine to be kept for breeding, twelve to be tagged and released with tiny radio transmitters clipped to the back of their wings, allowing biologists to track them and study their life cycle. Some condor protectionists objected. The birds, they argued, are extremely sensitive to human contact. A man standing 500 yds. away can keep a condor from its nest...
...Interior James Watt plans to open Davenport's beloved Matagorda Island Wildlife Refuge in Texas to developers. "Watt can't do that!" fumes the courtly Davenport, his straw boater slightly askew. "It's outrageous and unconscionable!" So furious is he that, "as secretary of the Maryland Audubon Society, I'm seriously thinking of demanding Watt's resignation in our next newsletter...
Harvard has never released an official estimate as to the extent of the MCZ losses -- which included original works by John J. and John W. Audubon. Louis Agassiz, and George Buffon--but the Globe reported that an appraisal commissioned by the paper had set the figure at more than $500.000. The study was conducted from lists of books the University had reported missing...