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WASHINGTON--Interior Secretary James Watt, already besieged for his remarks about American Indians, drew added fire yesterday for saying his environmental critics are pursuing the "greater objective" of central control of society, just as the German Nazis and Russian Bolsheviks...
...Interior Department announced its decision to drop wilderness protection for the 805,000-plus acres less than a week after a weary Congress had adjourned for the holidays. The timber, mining and petroleum industries applauded. Conservationists and some Congressmen called the timing contemptible. The announcement, snapped Ohio Democrat John Seiberling, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks, was "a deliberate attempt to evade...
...decision directly affected about 3.4% of the 24 million acres on Interior's wilderness "study list," lands temporarily protected from development while the department examines them for inclusion in the federal wilderness system. But after recent administrative reviews of this inventory, Interior Solicitor William Coldiron recommended dropping protections for three types of land: parcels of fewer than 5,000 acres (total: 340,526 acres); "split estates," where the Government owns the surface rights but not the mineral rights (total: 464,975 acres); and areas adjacent to wilderness sites (70 parcels of undetermined acreage in nine states...
Overnight, ethnic agitation broke out in Tel Aviv. Demonstrators called Mayor Shlomo Lahat a murderer and threatened revenge. Swastikas appeared on the Jerusalem residence of Yosef Burg, the German-born Interior Minister who has authority over the police...
...scientific writings and finds much of the literature "superficially impressive but historically impossible." Ever on his guard against "the dangers of behavioral biology," he includes an encapsulated history of the misuse of "science" to justify social aims--nineteenth century racial theories, the Nazis' view of the Jews as genetically interior, and Shockleyian notions about the inherent intellectual superiority of some people over others...