Word: timber
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...preserve ecosystems for the future. But one of the surprising lessons of the bruising battles over the environment in the past few years is that green sentiment is again a powerful political force. That's why Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski failed to ram through legislation that would have facilitated timber cutting in the Tongass National Forest. In California the Clinton Administration reached an agreement that would protect Headwaters, a privately owned grove of ancient redwoods that has been the focus of protests for years. And in Maine voters moved closer to imposing controls on clear-cutting in a state where...
Kaczynski, who spent 10 years as a hermit in rural Montana before federal officials nabbed him earlier this year, pleaded innocent in June to a similar indictment in Sacramento, Calif. that involved four bombings which killed a computer store owner and a timber industry lobbyist and maimed two professors...
...more. Denvir protested that publicizing the diaries will make it harder to find impartial jurors and said the defense would be challenging their admissibility. The case in California involves only four of the bombings: the deaths of a computer-rental-store owner in Sacramento in 1985 and a timber-industry lobbyist in Sacramento in 1995, and the maiming of a University of California geneticist and a Yale University computer expert...
...fighting. One is to come in with heavy firepower and force the combat to stop, the other is to make some sort of economic deal with the warlords. The problem is that Taylor and Johnson will not quit fighting while they are making money off the war, exploiting timber and diamond mines. The West let this war go on until it drove Liberia back into a 10th century situation with a set of feudal economic dominions. One summit conference is not going to solve the problems." Johnson's departure follows a renewed assault on his troops and positions by rival...
...Department named New Jersey First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Cleary to lead the team that will prosecute Kaczynski, the hot speculation was over whether the initial prosecution would take place in Cleary's state, where the Unabomber murdered advertising executive Thomas Mosser in 1994, or in California, where timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray was killed in 1995. Prosecutors could seek the death penalty in either case...