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British Prime Minister John Major last week dared his Conservative rivals to "put up or shut up," and today, the Tories put up. John Redwood, a right-wing member of Major's own Cabinet, resigned his post (Welsh Secretary) and declared his candidacy for the Conservative leadership contest that Major himself had boldly scheduled for July 4. Redwood's move ended the appearance of Cabinet unity that Major's supporters had hoped would ensure him victory. The fight now centers on rightist opposition to Britain's economic intergration with Europe. Redwood, a standard-bearer for the Euro-skeptics, read...
Both the lamps and the columns in the art-deco New Leverett building are shaped like large oak or redwood trees...
...young activist fights to save an ancient redwood forest...
...later, before first light, Thron was standing outside the tent, rain running down the back of his neck. After perhaps five minutes, he heard a short, musical, descending call -- the "keer" of a marbled murrelet. Huge, dark shapes began to coalesce in the lightening gray: the enormous trunks of redwoods and Douglas firs. By full light, Thron had tallied 23 calls from murrelets. In this April nesting season, these smallish, fast-flying seabirds trade chores in a quick exchange at dawn. The parent freed of egg-sitting duty arrows off at 55 m.p.h. for Humboldt Bay to fish for breakfast...
...Hurwitz also boosted the rate of old-growth logging; as Congressman Pete Stark, a California Democrat, put it, "looting the forest, meeting monthly interest payments by cutting thousand-year-old trees." Is there a moral issue here? A Maxxam spokesman dismisses the question, saying, "Our position is that sufficient redwoods are protected and that our trees are private property." (Redwood National Park, 50 miles to the north, has 38,000 acres of ancient redwoods...