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...awakened to the political advantage of forming a Praetorian Guard around Mother Earth. Though Clinton has been accused of being just pale green, especially after he retreated in 1993 from imposing new grazing fees on federal lands, the White House has got the message. Al Gore, a best-selling conservationist, two weeks ago denounced Republicans on the Hill for a "jihad against the environment'' that had allowed lobbyists from "the biggest polluters in America'' to rewrite environmental law. And Clinton has threatened to veto any provisions to permit oil drilling in the Arctic refuge...
...Young claims to love nature as much as anyone else. "I'm a true conservationist," he proclaims. "I'm one who believes that from the lands God has given this great nation comes the wealth of the nation." For too long, he argues, "protectionists" have built walls of red tape around that wealth. He wants to tear those barriers down so that it would be easier to tap-in a responsible way, he insists-into the nation's oil, timber and mineral treasures. Young's views are of no small consequence; he's the new chairman of the House Committee...
DIED. GERALD DURRELL, 70, British conservationist and best-selling writer; of complications from a liver transplant; in St. Helier on the Channel island of Jersey. The self- described "champion of small uglies," Durrell founded the Jersey Zoological Park in 1958, where he bred endangered species to return to the wild-a controversial but ultimately effective program. Encouraged by his novelist brother Lawrence, he wrote a series of witty, educational musings on his life's work, such as The Overloaded Ark (1953) and the 1956 memoir My Family and Other Animals...
DIED. GERALD DURRELL, 70, British animal lover, conservationist and best- selling writer about the creature kingdom; of complications from a 1994 liver transplant; in St. Helier on the Channel Island of Jersey. As a self- described ``champion of small uglies,'' Durrell dedicated his life to the preservation of wildlife. In 1958 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, where he bred endangered species such as the Mauritius pink pigeon to return to the wild. Encouraged by his novelist brother Lawrence, Durrell (pronounced Durl) began writing about his life's work, filling books such as The Overloaded Ark (1953) with witty anecdotes...
When she speaks about her own writing, Gordimer says her novels The Conservationist and The Burger's Daughter have satisfied her, but she can't be sure if None to Accompany Me, her latest novel, is also on the list...