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...Sullivan may have lost control of HHS even before he was confirmed as its chief. Shortly after he was nominated, Sullivan alarmed antiabortion groups by remarks he made in a newspaper interview in which he appeared to support the Supreme Court's pro-abortion Roe v. Wade decision. Soon after, the beleaguered nominee met with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a pro-life Republican who had the power to thwart the nomination. Hatch, who says his intervention came at the request of the President, presented Sullivan with his own list of pro-life- approved candidates for top jobs in the department...
...Sasser of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, insisted last week, "What we've done here does not waddle enough to be called ducks." Perhaps. But since the nearly $6 billion in revenue enhancements enacted last week will rise to $30 billion over the next five years, taxpayers may be forgiven if they exercise their right to squawk...
Searching through the debris for blessings in disguise, hotel owners note that the disaster could have happened in high season rather than before it. In addition, the tragedy may help inspire local governments to repair the infrastructure properly, and then some. "Hugo has done for St. Thomas what nothing else could," says Hotel Association president Nick Pourzal. "Now they are planting, landscaping, spending the money to line the boulevards with bougainvillea. I've been trying to get this done for 15 years...
Nature, however, may not repair so quickly. Tourists venturing east toward El Yunque, the only tropical rain forest in the U.S. National Forest System, will see the destruction firsthand. The 40-ft. leafy cathedral that vaulted over the roads is now open to the sun, and once lush reaches of forest are bare, broken and brown. In the hardest-hit areas, 60% of the hardwood trees are gone, including huge mahoganies, and many of the rare Puerto Rican parrots have disappeared...
...right. Ritz-Carlton is proceeding with plans for a $140 million hotel on St. Croix scheduled to open in late 1992. Great Pond Bay Resorts just won approval for a $250 million project with 350 hotel rooms and 600 condos. If the islands all do struggle back, it may be because in the end Hugo could not destroy what most people come to the Caribbean to find. It could not make the sea less bright or the sun less clear, or bestir the starfish or break the spirits of the islands' hosts. The present flurry of activity may...