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...photo opportunities were substantive: President Reagan aboard a skipjack on Chesapeake Bay; a windblown Reagan atop an observation tower at Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge; Reagan touring Mammoth Cave National Park, posing amid the stalactites in the world's most extensive cave system. Reagan was again embarked on one of his "theme" weeks, this one designed, somewhat awkwardly, to create an image as a champion of environmental concerns. Yet even a top aide admitted that the conservationist crusade "was a little thin," and environmentalists howled that it was also loose with the truth...
...even the Ku Klux Klan. "African Monkeys!" says one. "In Los Angeles our own Olympic flames are waiting to incinerate you." The shocking notes arrived at the Olympic Committee offices of at least five countries-Zimbabwe, China, Malaysia, South Korea and Sri Lanka. Although the letters, one postmarked in Maryland, are on paper with a Ku Klux Klan logo, the State Department suspects that Moscow was their real source. Said Secretary of State George Shultz, who was in Asia last week: "It makes you wonder if it is a disinformation campaign...
...which also tend to refer to their organizations by fuller names. State Department experts were analyzing copies of the letters for further evidence that they were a shoddy attempt to reinforce Soviet claims that Los Angeles presents a security risk to foreign athletes. Said Samuel Royer, Maryland Grand Dragon of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan: "In no way was the Klan involved...
Transpace Carriers, a two-year-old Maryland firm that plans to use NASA rockets to put satellites aloft, accused Arianespace, its European rival, of using government subsidies to submit low-cost bids for American contracts. Transpace wants the French firm to charge the same price for U.S. launches as it does for European ones. Among the jobs Arianespace has won is a $125 million award to launch five General Telephone & Electric orbiters...
...itself are now threatened. Watermen have been saying for years that the Chesapeake is dying. Now others are confirming their complaint. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, after making a $28 million six-year study, concluded in 1983 that the Chesapeake is clearly an ecosystem in decline. Says Maryland Governor Harry Hughes: "Time is running out for the Chesapeake. If we do not take action to save the bay, there may be no point in taking it tomorrow; it may be too late...