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...object to the implication that "environmentalist" means "non-hunter." To hunt and to be concerned about the environment are not mutually exclusive. Theodore Roosevelt, an avid sportsman, was one of the driving forces behind the conservation movement...
Some critics are worried that monitoring Waste Management's vessels would be difficult. Over the past year the company has been battling charges of improper handling of toxic materials at various of its landlocked disposal sites around the nation. Others object to toxic wastes being trucked to and stored at dockside facilities. Says John Vaughn, a Lake Charles, La., municipal official: "We know there is a problem with hazardous wastes, but we don't want to solve it for all of Louisiana, Alabama, Texas and Mississippi...
...puzzled that you should question whether the U.S. Government will accept "a onetime terrorist" as ambassador from Nicaragua. The Reagan Administration employs terrorists who regularly cross from Honduras to Nicaragua to try their hand at terrorism. Why should we object to having a former practitioner of the art as Nicaragua's ambassador...
...delicate handling, however, the campaign is sputtering. Much of China's leadership remains an immovable object of orthodoxy. The staunchest Maoist loyalists are within the 4.2 million-strong People's Liberation Army, whose upper ranks have become a stagnant gerontocracy. The youngest of the nine men on the Central Military Commission is 70; three of its four vice chairmen, like Chairman Deng, have passed their 80th birthday. Even the People's Daily has been moved to complain that "some of our leading cadres are like document-reading machines, speaking rather than acting and just sitting there unless they...
...suppose the plaque poses a challenge to get it down from its high position, nevertheless it is a senseless act of vandalism on an aesthetically valued object," said Aida K. Press, Director of Public Information at Radcliffe...