Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Interior. Watt has accelerated the sale of oil and gas leases, moved to expedite the surface mining of coal, opened up wilderness areas to allow exploration of strategic minerals, halted the acquisition of more lands for national parks. He says he wants a bold, sensible program that will renew the country's growth. Says one of Watt's top aides, Stan Hulett: "Nobody could have survived making these proposals a few years ago. It took a major economic crisis to let us finally change direction...
...Renew America...
...when the lease expired, a new minister had taken over and he refused to renew it. The indignant oilmen thereupon protested to the local American ambassador, who informed the Justice Department. The department in turn obtained a federal court injunction in 1979 preventing the men from violating the Corrupt Practices Act, which was by then...
Although Weicker will have to renew his struggle to rally the irascible Connecticut Republican party behing his re-election bid he will probably overcome the sniping from the right generated by NCPAC. Confident that the Republican party will be forced to renounce Terry Dolan, Weicker says he is "proud to be a number one on that guy's hit list--wouldn't have it any other way." He predicts that even conservative candidates will disown Dolan--as several did in 1980--in an effort to maintain GOP unity. Raising his voice with characteristic emotion, Weicker has his own view...
...revive the long-stalled talks on autonomy for the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The prospect of an early election should not be an obstacle to a summit, he argued. Said Begin to the visiting Egyptians: "Please tell my friend President Sadat that Israel is ready to renew the autonomy negotiations at any moment...