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...Tongass, one of the few remaining temperate rain forests, should be largely protected from logging, especially considering that the industry is heavily subsidized by the U.S. Forest Service. Says Larry Edwards, founder of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Society: "We have a saying about the timber industry: 'They take the best. Then they take the best of the rest. And they leave us, the public and the nature lovers and the Alaskans, the scraps...
...them. "We can let the uprising proceed, let the pressures continue to work on public opinion in Israel and the United States," explains a senior Bush adviser, "and try to channel those pressures in constructive directions." So for the time being, the Administration feels that the best policy is one of patient incrementalism. "The President does not believe conditions now exist for making peace, but he would like to see those conditions fostered, step by step," said the U.S. official. "Time is on our side." That, however, may mean years -- and a change in Prime Ministers...
...seven shows at the just completed festival seem sure to have further life; one is among the freshest, funniest and most poignant works seen on any U.S. stage this season. Though the writers included Broadway stalwart Arthur Kopit, novelist Harry Crews and columnist William F. Buckley Jr., the best script, aptly for Louisville's tradition of discovery, came from regional-theater veteran Constance Congdon, whose works have never been produced in New York City...
Also promising but in need of a further draft or two is Crews' Blood Issue, an old-fashioned play of a family gathering leading to late-night revelation. The secret is tame by current standards: a man who feared his blood was tainted asked his best friend to sire his children. But the real problem is that the central character, who is a writer and who presumably stands in for the author, is almost devoid of particularity: his only trait is drunkenness. On the plus side were pungent dialogue, believable family conflict and forgiveness, and deft performances by Anne Pitoniak...
Responding to the criticism, headmaster Burns said last week that the school's handling of Rogers "may have been . . . in retrospective, not the best." Rogers was offered a new contract for the next school year, but she has yet to accept the deal, partly because it makes her return to the campus contingent on a "substantial" determination by the Naval Investigative Service, the FBI and the San Diego police that she does not pose a security threat. "Does Sharon feel betrayed? I think she does," says a friend. "Twelve years of her life she's given to that school...