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...National Security Adviser's job is potentially one of the most powerful in the nation and indeed the world. The Interior Secretary's task of managing the Federal Government's vast landholdings, for all the explosive controversy that Watt brought to it, has considerably less than globe-girdling impact; it is of interest primarily to the Western states...
...voter-approved initiative banning certain coastal projects did not apply to construction started before the vote was taken. Through later decisions the court in effect nullified this ruling. That same year, Clark was in the minority in contending that Occidental Oil Co. did not have to file an environmental-impact report before drilling test holes off the Los Angeles coastline. He wrote, a bit woodenly: "Sound practical considerations militate against the implication of formalistic requirements in the legislative process." Clark also dissented in two court decisions that upheld the right of communities to limit residential projects in which the developer...
...prompted the creation of a coal-leasing review panel, and Watt's insensitive description of the panel's "balance" precipitated his exit. Overall, the federal land leased to coal-mining companies more than quintupled under Watt. Conservationists fear that many leases were granted hastily, without proper environmental impact studies...
That, at least, is the intended impact of indictments produced by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., against 15 alleged participants in a casino skimming conspiracy involving millions. The defendants include Mafia chiefs in Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee and the Chicago Mob's reputed enforcer of its operations in Las Vegas. The charges, stem ming from a five-year FBI investigation, challenge the repeated claims by Nevada casino regulators that skimming and the heavy hand of organized crime had been largely eliminated from the gambling capital. The indictment contends that the conspiracy was still operating...
Last week the FBI was hyping the latest indictments. "The impact is going to be tremendous," said an agency spokesman about the Midwest Mob. "It's a devastating blow." Patrick Healy, executive director of the Chicago crime commission, agreed. "The indictment pretty well knocks out the decision makers from Chicago, Milwaukee and Kansas City," he said. Perhaps. But first the defendants must be convicted in court. Meanwhile, there is no evidence that the casino games themselves are crooked, except for an occasional phony jackpot as a skimming tactic, and there is unlikely to be any shortage of gamblers...