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...energy discontent in which natural-gas rates have soared to their highest level in 15 years, and that ever lovable cartel, OPEC, has slashed its oil output again to keep prices up. California's woes are testing everyone from Governor Gray Davis, a moderate Democrat seen as presidential timber, to George W. Bush, who last week stiffed Davis' request for federal aid to the staggering utilities...
...Rather than take on Lin and his well-equipped private army, Burma's generals cut a generous deal with him. In return for keeping the peace, Lin was granted immunity from prosecution and full autonomy in the Mongla region. The regime also gave him lucrative business concessions in gold, timber and gems, as well as?crucially?tacit permission to trade in opium...
...Colorado attorney general who is Bush's pick for Interior. She is being assailed by environmentalists, who now rival civil rights groups for clout on Capitol Hill. Norton, says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope, "would be a natural disaster as Interior Secretary. Norton is the oil, mining and timber industry's choice." Pope's group is worried that she will move quickly to open more federal land to mining and oil exploration. During a stint as Reagan's associate solicitor for conservation and wildlife, where she was a protege of James Watt, the Interior Secretary enviros loved to hate...
...Earth First!, renounced the use of violence. Since then, ELF members and sympathizers have waged a stealth war against "those who profit from the destruction of the natural environment." The attacks include a $12 million fire at a ski resort in Vail, Colo.; a $500,000 fire at a timber-company headquarters in Medford, Ore.; and another that destroyed a partly built home in Bloomington, Ind., that the ELF said was part of a development that threatened the local water supply...
...Others who oppose Clinton's actions are not quite as interested in diplomatic equivocation. "Idaho will sue," Governor Dirk Kempthorne told the Times, calling the order "an absolutely flawed piece of public policy that has stiffed the states." Kempthorne, along with representatives of the energy and timber industries, claims the order would strangle domestic resources and jobs, and would necessitate costly importation of critical energy and building supplies...