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According to Pamela Brown, a 12-year veteran of wolf shows, the movement to reinstate timber wolves to the wilderness is experiencing delays due to the intervention of special interest groups such as ranchers, hunters, developers and offi- cials of the Fish and Game subdivision of theDepartment of the Interior...
...like us any more." That kind of scorched-earth policy may save the jobs of top management, but it does not help investors, who see the greenmailer make a huge profit while their shares decline in value. Said T Boone Pickens, a frequent opponent of entrenched corporate offi cials and a sometime greenmailer...
...asked a British official, "when we British, the Germans and Italians have just deployed U.S. medium-range missiles in the face of much domestic opposition?" The Paris daily Le Monde noted that French, British and Italian troops are serving beside U.S. Marines in Beirut. Not to mention, said Bonn offi cials, the broad allied support for U.S. policy in southern Africa and Central America. Eagleburger, however, is not finished. He is preparing to give a major speech on the subject in March...
While the Syrians stewed in their isolation, Jordan's King Hussein was playing his own kind of game. Off he went to Moscow to confer with Soviet offi cials, who offered him both military and economic assistance "in principle" but mentioned no specifics. That was just fine with the King; he preferred not to sign anything and to keep the promises general. Thus, without obligating himself to the Russians, he can use their offers of help to show Washington and London that he has other places to go if they do not give him what he wants...
...unacceptable affront to sovereignty and protocol. It was both peremptory and insulting, addressing itself to "the British government's utterly hideous and ferocious features of fascist imperialism." Britain's man in Peking, Charge d'Affaires Donald Hopson, 52, a cool, much-decorated World War II commando offi cer, simply refused to send it to London. Peking, of course, broadcast the texts anyway. It demanded the release of 53 imprisoned Hong Kong Communists within 48 hours and the re opening of three outlawed Red tabloids in the troubled crown colony-or else the Chinese would take unspecified action...