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...Colorado Springs A six-week, nation-wide manhunt for seven gun-toting escapees from a Texas prison ended when the last two, stripped to the waist and hands in the air, surrendered to police in Colorado. Two days earlier four of the other fugitives, who had been living in a trailer park, attending bible classes and mixing with their neighbors, gave themselves up when they were surrounded by heavily armed police. A fifth committed suicide rather than surrender. The gang members, who escaped from prison where they were serving long sentences for rape, murder and other serious crimes, will most...
Bush started out on the wrong track by appointing Gale R. Norton and former Sen. John D. Ashcroft to the posts of Interior Secretary and Attorney General. Norton has earned the ire of conservation groups concerned about her environmental record as Colorado's attorney general and her advocacy of oil exploration in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. And the Ashcroft appointment has justifiably angered those who oppose the nominee's past efforts against desegregation in Missouri, his hardline position on abortion, his willingness to blur the line between church and state and his disgraceful interventions to block two Clinton appointees...
...says the rest of the league can't compete? Even the Colorado Rockies, who finished second-to-last in the NL West last season, were able to go out this winter and make Mike Hampton the richest pitcher in the game. And, for that matter, before the results of the A-Rod sweepstakes were announced, who would have seriously considered Texas--which plays not in Dallas, but in Arlington--a big market...
...third most tempting target for interest groups is Gale Norton, the former Colorado attorney general who is Bush's pick for Interior. She is being assailed by environmentalists, who now rival civil rights groups for clout on Capitol Hill. Norton, says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope, "would be a natural disaster as Interior Secretary. Norton is the oil, mining and timber industry's choice." Pope's group is worried that she will move quickly to open more federal land to mining and oil exploration. During a stint as Reagan's associate solicitor for conservation and wildlife, where...
...Norton is not without political skills. As Colorado attorney general she badgered the Energy Department to clean up Rocky Flats, the infamous nuclear-weapons waste site. The Energy Committee's Democratic aides have encouraged environmental groups to dig into her past, "but we'll keep an open mind on whether she's the second coming of Jim Watt," says a Senate staff member. The fact is, Bush's nominations have given environmentalists too many targets: aside from Norton, there's former Michigan Senator Spence Abraham, a champion of the gas-guzzling SUV. Bush nominated him to head the Energy Department...