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...maybe not. The city government has served the Peis two letters. One, dated last spring, promised the house will not be destroyed, because it was designated a historic monument in 1999. The other, which arrived in late January, gave the family one month to find a new home. "I don't know which document to believe," said Bei, as the Feb. 21 deadline to move out passed without a peep from city officials. "So we didn't do anything. Now we're just waiting for the government to tell us what it's going...
...last trip of his presidency, to Little Rock, Ark., Clinton banters with reporters. "You got anybody you want to pardon?" he asks. "Everybody in America either wants somebody pardoned or a national monument...
...labeled Clinton's last-minute pile of new rules, orders and treaties the work of a "busy beaver." The former President's aides had mischief in mind when they conjured up some of these actions, especially the designation of more than 5.6 million acres of federal land as national monuments. If Bush wants to reverse those orders, he will face howls of protests from environmental groups. "We laid a few traps," chirps a happy Clinton aide. In the 95 years since the practice was established under Teddy Roosevelt, no President's designation of a national monument has ever been reversed...
Western Republicans are infuriated by Clinton's new habit of flying out to some picturesque site in the West and unilaterally declaring it a national monument with a sweep of his hand. "Environmental law has become an oxymoron. It just serves whatever angle the Democrats are pushing," complains James Buchal, a Portland lawyer and author of The Great Salmon Hoax. Property-rights advocates accuse the Administration of carrying out land grabs. A series of lawsuits has been filed challenging the designation of national monuments throughout the West, including the sequoia forest. And vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney has said...
...serious problems--possibly leaving them in the hands of a Bush presidency. "There is a tremendous amount of environmental damage the next Administration could do," says Jim Angell, staff attorney for Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, who is fighting a challenge in federal court to the designation of five national-monument sites in the West...