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...snub was only the latest in a series of defeats that Reilly has suffered in battles with top Administration officials who prize economic growth over conservation. Among Reilly's adversaries are Vice President Dan Quayle, who is leading a campaign to soften environmental regulations, and Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan. Reilly and Lujan have clashed as members of the so-called God Squad, a committee of officials with the power to grant exceptions to the Endangered Species Act. Last month, over Reilly's protests, a committee majority gave loggers the go-ahead to cut down 688 hectares (1,700 acres...
...FACE OF this electoral snub, De Klerk called this referendum on the country's future...
...There is no question that the great concentration of able young people are in various area of what we might call social history--so that I think to snub those fields is to miss out on a lot of the best people to get a kind of teaching and research that gets people thinking about connection between social and political," says David Montgomery, a Yale labor historian...
...possible to explain away this snub (Harvard didn't have one scorer in the top 15.), but how then can the coach explain Harvard's first-place finish...
Last month Baker responded to Shamir's latest snub by calling settlements the biggest "obstacle to peace." President Bush followed up by warning that he might withhold $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees that Israel wants to help absorb Soviet Jews unless Jerusalem agrees to a settlement freeze. As usual, Shamir was unimpressed by the threats. Speaking at the West Bank settlement of Beit Arieh last week, he dismissed any connection to peace talks and vowed that the construction drive "cannot be stopped...