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...guerrilla groups have grabbed headlines by pouring sand in the fuel tanks of logging machinery and destroying oil-exploration gear. But it is law- abiding citizens, stung by a threat to their livelihood, their recreation or their family's health, who are giving the nation's environmental movement its daily, stubborn edge. In Kansas two years ago, a housewife who lived near Wichita's Vulcan Chemical plant and whose family had been beset with health problems handcuffed herself to a chair outside Governor Mike Hayden's office until she could see him. Last year a Louisiana group brought cancer-stricken...
Thornburgh's tough words seemed to signal that the Bush Administration, stung by charges of foot dragging on the environment, was moving to crack down on major polluters like Exxon. The company pronounced itself "disappointed" at the indictments and vowed to fight them in court. The prosecution may yet result in a settlement. But no matter what happens, the case will further complicate a gargantuan legal wrangle that already involves more than 150 civil complaints as well as the separate prosecution of tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood by the state of Alaska...
...invasion at least as early as last spring; they were the subject of one of the first briefings Defense Secretary Cheney received when he took over. The plans were updated in the summer, and much more intensively by Joint Chiefs Chairman Powell after the unsuccessful Oct. 3 coup. Stung by the derisive criticism about his inaction then, Bush appeared to be waiting eagerly for some justification to send in the troops...
...maestro tried to orchestrate the debate, cutting off talk with a curt "That's all." Still, plenty of sour notes were struck. The Armenian delegation stormed out in protest, radical Lithuanians vented their mistrust of the Kremlin, and ordinary Deputies griped about empty food stores. At one point, a stung Gorbachev even flared, "Don't direct any accusations at me. Just calm down...
...Stung by criticism that he has become an "accomplice" of the murderous Khmer Rouge guerrillas, Cambodian resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk last week resorted to a familiar tactic. He announced yet another change in his zigzag course to a political settlement...