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WARSAW, Poland--Solidarity leader Lech Walesa urged supporters yesterday to avoid being provoked into "bloody revolution" by the kidnapping of a pro-Solidarity priest, who the Interior Ministry says was abducted and possibly killed by three of its own officers...
...captain and two lieutenants of the Interior Ministry have been charged in the Oct. 19 abduction, the interior minister, Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak, said in a nationwide television address Saturday night...
Wildlife. Under Secretary Watt, Interior had almost stopped adding threatened fauna and flora to the federal endangered-species list. By the end of 1984, Clark will have added about 20 species to the roster, an improvement over his predecessor but not nearly good enough, say the environmentalists. Some 4,000 plants and annuals are now seriously imperiled; at the current rate it will take about a century to classify them...
...organizations, the National Wildlife Federation, which had joined in the chorus against Watt, sees Clark as a plus. "He has defused the tension," says Lynn Greenwalt, a vice president of the N.W.F. "Mr. Clark is approachable, and he listens." Clark has yet to make major substantive changes in Interior, says Greenwalt, but compared with Watt in the areas of diplomacy and personality, "Mr. Clark has to get an A+ with summa cum laude...
...Interior officials dismiss the latest assessment of the environmentalists. One spokesman says that Clark is a lawyer and approaches problems on a case-by-case basis. "He did not set out to make a clean sweep, and he did not get rid of everyone that Sierra and Friends of the Earth would like us to get rid of," says Kallman. "He is required under law to consider all constituencies and it is, accordingly, a thankless job." Interior officials say they hope to be able to sit down with representatives of the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth...