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...nearly four decades, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 92, has been the eloquent voice of South Florida's Everglades. As writer, she celebrated the mysteries of the swampy wilderness in the 1947 classic, The Everglades: River of Grass. As president of Friends of the Everglades, the 2,800-member organization she founded in 1970, she has battled civilization's encroachments in an effort to preserve and restore North America's only subtropical zone. Douglas and her recruits, dubbed Marjory's Army, have scored impressive victories, helping to block construction of an international jetport in the marshland, forcing...
...pristine state. Huge tracts have been drained for agricultural and residential development, and thousands of miles of man-made canals have diverted the water from natural channels. Even much of the 62% of land lying within the Everglades National Park, though it remains covered with hardy saw grass, is in sorry condition...
Baker's uncertainty was not sudden, but was apparent as long ago as 1978. "Howard likes to wax nostalgic about the idea of the citizen-legislator," says Senator Lugar, referring to Baker's vision of responsible representatives in constant touch with the grass roots, who would do their duty and then step aside. Less romantically, Baker, a rich man when he came to the Senate, wants to replenish his personal coffers. His wife of 31 years, Joy, was successfully operated on last year for lung cancer. A pragmatic, contradictory, intensely private man, who once promised...
Thatcher faces increasing criticism, from the opposition Labor Party and the strong grass-roots Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament movement as Britain approaches a deadline for deploying new nuclear weapons to counter the estimated 620 Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe...
...what we had in mind at the start. What our forefathers (bless 'em) wanted was the land, not machines, the great, wide, beautiful land that was thought to go on forever. When the machines came clanging along, they were supposed to let folks enjoy the land more, the green grass and the blue water. Only they got out of hand, you see, until all the lovely forever greens and blues got squeezed in a corner full of national parks and the sky choked black with factories. That isn't what we intended, though. Machines were meant to open the territory...