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Even at this time of year, Washington, D.C., is crawling with flowers and plants. Though the city is now consumed by manic post-election talk, the local flora manage to get an awful lot of attention. Civic boosters tend to be horticultural zealots as well. And they have a point: Washington is high spirited and blithe, by Washington's standards, when its greenswards are green and the vast federal flower patches are blooming. Just a few weeks ago in Rock Creek Park, for instance, the National Park Service had a Dixieland band and a blue-grass group come...
Wildlife. Under Secretary Watt, Interior had almost stopped adding threatened fauna and flora to the federal endangered-species list. By the end of 1984, Clark will have added about 20 species to the roster, an improvement over his predecessor but not nearly good enough, say the environmentalists. Some 4,000 plants and annuals are now seriously imperiled; at the current rate it will take about a century to classify them...
...York Times columnist] Flora Lewis may write that the Soviet Union has broken its promises to its people," he said, "but she doesn't realize that the promises that government makes are not the same ones this government makes...
...DIED. Flora Robson, 82, versatile British character actress who graced both the London and Broadway stages and scores of films; in Brighton, England. She specialized in villainesses, including Lady Macbeth, the demoniacal Ellen Creed in Ladies in Retirement (1939), and the shoplifter in Black Chiffon (1949), but was also known for her portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I, most notably in the 1937 film Fire over England...
Threatened animals are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as the CITES treaty. The pact, which took effect in 1975, has 87 signatories. The U.S. has two additional umbrellas: the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which bars the import of animals or plants on an "endangered" or "threatened" list, and the 1900 Lacey Act, which forbids the entry of plants or animals taken illegally out of another country...