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...Congress, Anderson is known as a "political snail darter," meaning most definitely an endangered species. He represents the rapidly dwindling liberal wing of the G.O.P. that once produced such national figures as Dwight Eisenhower and Nelson Rockefeller. Today the leading contenders for the G.O.P. nomination are all from the conservative spectrum of the party. Anderson is the only candidate offering a notable dissent. "He wants to make one awful cry to pierce the gray," says a leading G.O.P. Congressman...
Earlier, the Bruins took a 1-0 lead when Slonim fired a darter from just inside the blue line that eluded Lau for a power-play goal...
...nation that is outraged by the possible extinction of the snail darter cannot sit quietly by and observe the annihilation of the Cambodian people," Bush said in a statement released at the press conference...
Last week the snail darter met defeat. Congress had already voted to allow exceptions to the Endangered Species Act because of "irresolvable conflict," and Republican Howard H. Baker of Tennessee moved to apply this gambit to the snail darter. When that failed, Baker resolutely pushed again, and Tellico was tacked onto a $10.8 billion energy and water appropriations bill. President Carter, on record as opposing the dam, faced a bitter choice. The bill reportedly contained no other pork barrels that he had fought, and it kept alive his Water Resources Council, an independent body that judges future projects. Moreover...
Ironically, the snail darter may not be doomed after all. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which helped transplant much of the snail darter population to the nearby Hiwassee River, says that while their future is not yet assured, the fish are doing well so far. But the dam itself may not have a happy ending. Though Mayor Charles Hall of Tellico Plains (pop. 1,000) predicts the project will create 10,000 jobs over the next two decades, a new report by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Department of the Interior concludes that the river...