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...approved plans to search for oil and gas at dozens of sites in the Lower 48 states. In January, it fast-tracked seismic exploration for oil and gas by 26-ton "thumper trucks" in Utah's Dome Plateau desert, a few miles from Arches National Park--until the Interior Department's appeals office temporarily halted the trucks, saying a more thorough assessment of environmental damage was needed. And now the Administration is considering a proposal to drill more than 50,000 methane-gas wells in Wyoming and Montana...
...this month it did not kill a Clinton-era regulation governing the use of personal watercraft, like Jet Skis, in national parks, although to the consternation of some environmentalists it will review the issue, raising the specter of the craft's returning to the parks. But in general, the Interior Department has been much more inclined to allow the use of public lands by corporations and sportsmen. The Administration plans to allow off-road vehicles back on 50,000 acres of the Imperial Sand Dunes, near San Diego. And later this month the Administration is likely to issue a rule...
...network with the ex-Taliban also persists. In Peshawar, thousands of empty Pakistani passports were stolen last December, and many are now thought to be in the pockets of Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives. Several senior Taliban commanders, including former Interior Minister Mullah Abdul Razzak, are living openly in the southern Pakistani border town of Chaman with their wives and families. Western diplomats express frustration over this, but they reckon Pakistan may be saving the ex-Taliban clergymen, who still have backing in southern Afghanistan, as a political option in case the interim Kabul government of Hamid Karzai unravels...
...year-old Luigi-Gino Fasulo, pilot of the four-seater tourist plane, had radioed air traffic control that he had landing-gear problems. Fasulo and two women died and 29 other people were injured. "This had nothing to do with the haunting images of the Twin Towers," said Interior Minister Claudio Scajola. "Sure, tragedy struck, but it could have been worse...
...have nothing against Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, Interior Minister Younis Qanooni or Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim. These three young disciples of deceased Afghan hero Ahmed Shah Massood impressed Western diplomats at the Bonn Conference and are probably among the most reliable warlords. The problem is that the Tajiks’ preponderance in the government makes other warlords very unhappy. And an unhappy warlord is often an unfriendly warlord...