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...will face howls of protests from environmental groups. "We laid a few traps," chirps a happy Clinton aide. In the 95 years since the practice was established under Teddy Roosevelt, no President's designation of a national monument has ever been reversed by a successor. But Bush aides insist they can circumvent the moves--and please the mining and logging industries--by writing land "management plans" for the monuments that allow for some commercial use. "Oh, right," replies Bruce Reed, Clinton's domestic-policy adviser. "I'm sure the public won't notice that...
...Palo Alto, Calif., board member Tomas Moran, it's operating more like a totalitarian government. Moran is among six dissenters who insist they're being locked out. Matthew Lasar, a professor at the University of California at Riverside who wrote a book about Pacifica, says the longtime advocate for openness and democracy is running itself "in a way that could be described as secrecy and fiat...
...even if the plane is safe, there are pressing concerns about the military value of the V-22. While the Marines insist the Osprey is ready for production, it has not been approved for combat maneuvers and lacks its required gun. The winds created by its dual 38-ft. rotors are so strong that landing in a desert kicks up sand "brownouts" that can blind pilots, and rescuing someone from the sea is made extremely difficult. Marines climbing down ropes from Ospreys in combat simulations aboard ships or oil platforms have to hit the deck and stay there until...
...common? Each is adjusting to political life under a new president whose ascent has been challenged as undemocratic. But President George W. Bush is certainly having the easiest time of it - not surprising, perhaps, since at least he actually stood for election as president, even if his naysayers insist he lost at the polls. And even though the media may be recounting the ballots in Florida, nobody would dream of trying to reverse the result. No matter what they think about how he got there, Bush's victory is accepted as a fait accompli across the political spectrum in Washington...
...rule bars foreign governments and multilateral organizations from receiving U.S. family planning funds if they provide abortion services or engage in any lobbying on abortion issues. It prevents organizations, such as women's health clinics and AIDS awareness groups, from discussing abortion in any form. Many pro-choice activists insist the issue is one of free speech as well as funding. The policy, originally called the Mexico City provision, was named for a population conference in 1984 where the U.S. first outlined what would become policy in both the Ronald Reagan and George Bush administrations. Bill Clinton lifted...