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...effort to mend fences with environmentalists and to restore peace at the Department of the Interior, the Reagan Administration brought in former National Security Adviser William Clark last October as Watt's replacement. Now, on the first anniversary of Clark's succession, two activist organizations, the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth, see only a small improvement over the Watt regime. In a report released last week, the groups have measured Clark's performance and found it wanting. Says the study: "We would give...
...environmentalists agree that Clark has effected a change in Interior's style. Says John McComb, conservation director of the Sierra Club: "Clark doesn't have the confrontational, arrogant attitude of Watt." But that adjustment, McComb says, is a "public relations game." The report maintains that "Watt's basic policies remain substantially unchanged." Among the points covered...
Interior officials dismiss the latest assessment of the environmentalists. One spokesman says that Clark is a lawyer and approaches problems on a case-by-case basis. "He did not set out to make a clean sweep, and he did not get rid of everyone that Sierra and Friends of the Earth would like us to get rid of," says Kallman. "He is required under law to consider all constituencies and it is, accordingly, a thankless job." Interior officials say they hope to be able to sit down with representatives of the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth...
...panel of experts who enact roles in hypothetical cases dramatizing Executive privilege, freedom of the press, school prayer, the right to life and other constitutional issues. President Ford and advisers like retired General Brent Scowcroft argue that classified information on covert CIA activity in the mythical country of Sierra Madre must be kept secret from Congress and the public. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker disagree. The debate is familiar, but it gains discipline and clarity from the astute questioning of Moderator Benno Schmidt, dean of the Columbia Law School. Unfortunately, the hour...
...then, the belief that the worst is over? "Mostly instinct," said Mondale in a campaign-plane interview with TIME. "I think the crowds are more excited. I think I'm getting my arguments across." He referred to an endorsement by the Sierra Club, the first in that environmentalist organization's 92-year history. He also pointed to the success of his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, in getting Chicago's feuding Democrats, Mayor Harold Washington and Councilman Edward Vrdolyak, to share a platform with her in a display of party unity. Said Mondale: "I think that means something...