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...luft from industry lobbyists? Theresa Woody, a Miami-based representative of the Sierra Club, thinks that the movement isn't dying, just lazy; people thought environmental laws were established and permanent, and they weren't paying attention. She guesses Newt Gingrich will turn out to be the best membership raiser the green brigade has had since James Watt's alarming career as Interior Secretary. These days, she says, people like to see wading herons, but they really care about clean water in the aquifer when they understand that their own bodies need it every bit as much as birds...
Interior Secretary Rafael Alunan said the attack was staged in retaliation for the arrest of six alleged Muslim militants in Manila on April 1 for illegal possession of firearms and explosives. Another theory held that the assault was simply a terrorist fund raiser: the gunmen left town with sacks of cash totaling $1 million. Whatever the motivation, the incident was the latest evidence that despite decades of fighting and negotiating, the Philippines, with a mostly Christian population of 66 million, has still to solve the problem of separatism among its 6 million Muslims. Two days after the Ipil raid, President...
Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, presided over the party's first aboveground political fund raiser in the U.S., taking in more than $20,000 at a reception in New York City. Adams was also invited to the White House by President Clinton for a St. Patrick's Day reception honoring Irish Prime Minister John Bruton. British Prime Minister John Major sent Clinton a letter of protest and asked him to pressure Adams to dismantle the I.R.A. arsenal...
...which each operative identifies 10 to 20 people who can each give $1,000, the maximum allowed by law. Each donor is then pressed to identify another 10 to 20 friends to do the same. The complex task of assembling so many names helps explain why veteran fund raisers, who boast networks of anywhere from 2,500 to 10,000 potential donors, have been courted so heavily by Dole, Gramm and Alexander in 1994 and 1995. "The objective is to find 20,000 people to give you $1,000 each," says Wayne Berman, a top G.O.P. fund raiser...
...yielded so far, but Coe reports that "it's just going gangbusters." Alexander may soon hold $100-a-head receptions in small towns for younger donors who aren't able to make the full $1,000 contribution. "If you did 100 people," notes Larry Bathgate, a veteran G.O.P. fund raiser based in New Jersey, "it's a $10,000 event to start. When it's matched, it's a $20,000 event...