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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FEDERAL government has made a notable addition to its long list of information booklets and how-to pamphlets on everyday living from buying a used car to fixing your toilet. Now, if you are the ambitious type, someone who has always dreamed of becoming a new Castro or Pinochet, well, the government has something...
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...
...Gibson said, "I quite possibly could have thrown a 20-ft. slider. Al Kaline won't take any credit, but he taught me." The following day, fortunes reversed, and against Bevacqua's home run, Gibson made two errors. Dusty Rhodes, Al Gionfriddo, Gene Tenace and the usual list of fateful World Series names was redrawn and then increased. Marty Castillo, whom Anderson describes as "the fool-around, funny guy" of the Tigers, homered with a man on base in the third game, during which 24 other runners were left. Promptly his life story was requested, starting with when...
...selection process for the vice-presidential forum Thursday was less tortuous. Ridings insisted that the slate be chosen largely from an original list of twelve, and to complete the process, she presented each campaign with pairs of potential panelists who had to be accepted in tandem. That approach produced a balanced group whose questions seemed a bit sharper in tone and follow-up than those posed by the presidential inquisitors. Its members: Robert Boyd, Washington bureau chief of the Knight-Ridder newspapers, Norma Quarles of NBC News, John Mashek of U.S. News and World Report and Jack White of TIME...
Despite the slight improvement in the approval process, Ridings said that she would not deal with campaign subordinates but would seek to discuss the process and perhaps establish a list during a conference telephone call with Mondale Campaign Chairman James Johnson and White House Chief of Staff James Baker. After the campaign is over, the League is considering meeting with reporters and political figures to work out a new system that will give candidates less leeway in exercising a veto. Says Ridings: "We do not expect journalists to be political eunuchs. We all have our thoughts and beliefs...