Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting with 96 dissidents and refuseniks, including the Ziemans; some of them attended despite harassment and left fearing punishment. Said Reagan: "I wanted to convey . . . support to you that you might in turn convey to others, so that all those working for human rights throughout this vast land . . . might be encouraged and take heart...
...candidate by at least 10 percentage points. That would amount to a repudiation of the Duarte record on at least two counts: Cristiani has said that he would return to private hands export industries run by the Duarte administration as state enterprises, and that he would roll back a land-reform program that turned El Salvador's largest estates into farm cooperatives...
Rivers are not the only ecosystems involved in the no-holds-barred battle between ATV users and environmentalists. In California some 500,000 acres of public land are open to use by the increasingly popular off-road vehicles. The Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area east of San Diego, for example, draws tens of thousands of visitors. Environmentalists are enraged. Says Bob Hattoy, Southern California director of the Sierra Club: "They have ample room to play, but they feel they have the cowboy's right to ride the range wherever they want, whenever they want and how far they want...
...stakes in the battle are high. Sierra Club Director Hattoy charges that the ATVs permanently scar the land, kill wildlife and destroy vegetation, as well as cause noise, safety and pollution problems. Says he: "We recognize their right to use public lands, but no one has the right to chase jackrabbits until their hearts explode, or roar over desert turtles." ATV Enthusiast Buddy Bray sees it differently. "I don't believe riding ATVs destroys the desert," he says. "All you kill is the bushes...
City Happenings: Page B-4. In Cambridge, squatters were evicted from land owned by MIT. The city's hands also knocked on unexpecting doors this spring, as Cambridge police arrested a Harvard student who was attending an Adams House party. The arrest raised further questions about the relationship between town and gown...