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...Last week, in a ceremony timed to resonate with the 4th of July holiday, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director Mollie Beattie formally proposed that the eagle's status be changed from "endangered" to "threatened" everywhere except in one region of the desert Southwest. At a marshy spot in Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Beattie marked the long-anticipated occasion by releasing a female bald eagle, fittingly named Hope, who had been nursed in captivity after suffering a broken wing. Following a 90-day public-comment period, the eagle can officially come off the endangered list...
...enough to start a grass-roots rebellion -- and it has. Across the nation from Greenwich, Connecticut, to Palo Alto, California, environmentalists and their allies are taking aim at the noisy machines that rule the neighborhood from May to October. In Takoma Park, Maryland, for instance, free-lance writer Mike Tidwell founded Citizens Against Lawn Mower Madness, a group seeking to limit use of gas mowers in the town. Says Tidwell: "I'm committed to spreading the gospel of power-mower reform...
...when Maryland discovered that seven state officials had enrolled in a three-week summer school class at the Kennedy School--at a total taxpayer expense of more then $40,000--there was a mild public outcry...
Page W. Boinest, Schaefer's press secretary,noted in an interview yesterday that Maryland hasregularly sent legislators and governmentofficials to Harvard for the summer courses...
However, the most quietly painful lack of support was from African-American leaders themselves. Though 20 members of the Congressional Black Caucus were invited, the only black elected officials to attend were Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke and Congressmen Kweisi Mfume of Maryland and Donald Payne of New Jersey. Jackson was the only representative from any of the other major black civil-rights organizations to show up. Chavis seemed to be alluding to absentees as well as critics when he declared, "The last time I checked my back, it was someone of African descent that put the dagger in and twisted...