Word: parkes
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Visitors to the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta last week were astonished to find it locked up tight. A sign posted a block away declared that tours of the two-story Queen Anne house had been "suspended until further notice," although park rangers were still conducting sidewalk lectures about the property...
...lockout was the immediate result of a dispute between the Park Service and the King family over a new visitor center being built on the Martin Luther King historic site -- a 23-acre parcel that encompasses the birth home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, King's tomb and the family-run King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. But in a broader sense, it was symbolic of the troubles that have beset the legacy of the slain civil rights leader in his hometown even as the U.S. prepares to celebrate his birthday next week...
...showdown prompted the larger question of whether Coretta Scott King, 67, and her son Dexter, 33 -- the third of her four children, who heads the King Center -- still have the political standing and moral authority to represent Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision. In a news conference about the Park Service dispute, Coretta King declared that "the same evil forces that destroyed Martin Luther King are now trying to destroy my family...
Ironically, the blowup occurred after an amicable 14-year partnership between the Park Service and the King family, which invited the federal agency to assist in administering everything except the Center in 1980. Since then, the site has become the Park Service's third most popular historic attraction (after the Statue of Liberty and Philadelphia's Independence Hall). The visitor center, which Coretta King originally supported, was proposed to alleviate a serious shortage of parking and toilet facilities before the onslaught of 1996 Olympic crowds. The Park Service began construction in November but, the King family claims, failed to include...
Wildlife biologists had planned to release at least a dozen gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park this morning as part of a controversial plan to bring the species back to the Northern Rockies, but the eight that made it are hardly roaming free. Late Wednesday, a federal appeals court ordered the wolves locked up until at least Friday, when a judge will consider new pleas from ranchers who fear their cattle and sheep will become prey. Wildlife activists worry that the wolves will not fare well for long in their small, two-by-three-by-four-foot travel crates...