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...hours Reagan would speak to the nation about his Administration's great scandal and would harvest yet more criticism. "The fact of the matter is that there's nothing I can say that will make the situation right," he would say later, in a statement that was both apologetic and defiant. "I was stubborn in my pursuit of a policy that went astray." It was a speech that satisfied neither friends nor enemies. But it was one that was inside the President as simple and pure as a diamond and had to come out, audience acceptance or not. "Well...
...catastrophe that's happening to the wetlands. You're looking at the genocide of an entire ecosystem," says Oliver Houck, a Louisiana environmental lawyer. Indeed, the loss of the state's marshes affects more than just local residents: the area provides almost 30% of the nation's fish harvest and 40% of the fur catch, and is a winter habitat for some two-thirds of the migratory birds in the Mississippi flyway. Says Oysterman Matthew Farac, speaking of the 32-mile stretch from the mouth of the Mississippi to Empire, La.: "There is no land left. It's all gone...
...cats have even been sighted recently on the outskirts of Nairobi. The biologists went so far as to recommend the resumption of international trade in leopard skins. The best approach to leopard management, they argue, is to legalize a limited "harvest," diverting revenues from poachers and providing an estimated $29 million to "governments and law-abiding citizens...
...common practice for coconut farmers to pay their landlords 70 percent of each harvest, a fact which helps to explain why there are 24,000 NPA in the field. The corrolation between perceived unfair land practices and military insurgency seems to be unmistakable. Given such a background, if the government of the Philippines wants to pursue--and achieve--a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program worthy of the name. But with a Congress not predisposed to favor such a policy, and a president commited to the policy in theory but incapable of effecting its realization in practice, the prospect of such...
...wasted crops spread jitters across the rest of the Farmbelt, especially in northern states that depend on migrants from the Southwest. In the Fruit Ridge region of Michigan, growers are scrambling to find cherry pickers, but the real worry is about the peach crop in July and apple harvest in August through October. Other worker shortages could reach from the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the poultry farms of Texas...