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...Last week the 240,000-member environmental organization, backed by representatives of similar "green vote" groups, brought that petition to the steps of the Capitol. There the 50 bundles, containing some 1.1 million names, were accepted by House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and California Democratic Senator Alan Cranston. As for the subject of all this wrath? Watt, 43, was out on the hustings staging his own "green" campaign-drumming up Republican funds for next year's congressional elections...
...defense articles as an indispensable component of its foreign policy." Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance James Buckley admits that the Administration's arms policy "will include a larger number of sales to developing countries, which desperately need more effective means of defending themselves." Complains Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California: "Reagan's policy on arms sales is to spew them everywhere...
...Reagan's appeal failed to sway at least four Republican opponents of the sale, and Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Ca), a leader of the opposition to the sale, said his vote count still shows 55 senators committed to or against the sale...
...snowball was going to roll to change sentiment, it would have rolled yesterday or today," Cranston said...
...appointed Secretary of the Interior. So they did. Now the Cabinet's most controversial member is under attack not only by environmental groups but also by the state of California, staffers in his own department's Office of Surface Mining, and even Congress. Said California Democrat Alan Cranston, in an impassioned speech to the Senate: "The clamor for his removal grows more persistent every day. I want Mr. Watt stopped...