Word: lande
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...Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, which is bursting at the seams from the region's population boom, rangers have closed down a ski area and dismantled three dams to restore the land for elk and sheep grazing. To protect the alpine terrain above the timberline, rangers have closed off a favorite breeding haunt of the endangered bighorn sheep near Crater Lake...
...Mandate for Recreation. Luring youths into parks to try their hand at tennis or their feet at rock climbing isn't just a pitch for frivolous fun. A report by the San Francisco-based Trust for Public Land documents a drop in crime in neighborhoods that provide adequate parks and recreation activities for youths. Unfortunately, the study notes, the best parks tend to be clumped in the wealthiest neighborhoods. In Chicago the impressive lakefront has 41 acres of parkland for every 1,000 residents; on the less affluent West Side there is only half an acre per 1,000 people...
...major reason for the lack of martial enthusiasm is fear that an invasion would land the U.S. in an endless quagmire, attempting an almost impossible task of "nation building." To overcome those misgivings, the Clinton Administration would have to persuade Congress and the public that it has a realistic plan for not just toppling the Cedras clique but also replacing it with a genuinely democratic government. That means coming to terms with Jean- Bertrand Aristide, the Roman Catholic priest who won a free election in 1990 but was ousted as President by an army coup and has been living...
...victors may rule an empty land...
...second time in seven months, TIME's Edward Barnes, Cathy Booth and Bernard Diederich are in Haiti waiting for the Americans to arrive. Last October the U.S.S. Harlan County, trying to land with a U.N.-sponsored team of military and police advisers, turned back after anti-U.S. mobs demonstrated at the port. This time Barnes, betting things will be different, has rented a room in a "strategically located" brothel with a roof that should command a good view of the first attack. Miami bureau chief Booth spent several days % last week at the army's decrepit general quarters, trying...