Word: federales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McGee said state and federal officials were surprised that the beach cleanup was halted because "the beach was not adequately clean."
"The people who were here last night from Exxon didn't know anything about this," Pete McGee, a scientist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said yesterday. Exxon, state and federal officials have been conducting nightly meetings on the progress of the cleanup.
It is a peculiarly American idea that the social injustices of the past can be mollified with cash and property payments. In 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Federal Government to pay some $122 million to eight tribes of Sioux Indians to make up for the illegal seizure of...
The Environment. Reagan, who was famous for asserting that trees cause pollution, cut back on environmental protection. After declaring in his campaign, "I am an environmentalist," Bush has appointed a respected conservationist to head the EPA; called for the elimination of chlorofluorocarbons, which harm the ozone layer; promised action on...
Gun Control. Reagan opposed it. Bush, too, is against new federal gun- control laws, but he responded to police and public pressure for controls on military-style assault weapons by banning the imported (though not U.S.-made) semiautomatic rifles.