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...part of a real shift in federal policy that shows a new respect for nature. Throughout most of U.S. history, government actions have encouraged human exploitation of natural resources: logging, mining, drilling, grazing, damming rivers. That philosophy reached its height during the Reagan years, when Interior Secretary James Watt favored mining in wilderness areas...
...Democrats from incumbents in adjoining districts. The resulting line segment cleaves so closely to the Interstate that state representative Mickey Michaux, who is black, jokes, "You could drive down I-85 with both doors open and kill everybody in the district." Alive and voting last year, they put Mel Watt, a black Democrat, in Congress...
...White House, where a welter of bad news had soured what was supposed to have been a celebration of the President's first 100 days in office. She was cheered on both sides of the aisle in Congress and in her own Justice Department, where a succession of 25-watt, responsibility-ducking Attorneys General had left morale lower than -- well, lower than an alligator's belly...
...fine walnut floor installed during New Deal days by his conservationist hero, Harold Ickes. Not even the floor covering is beyond the scrutiny of Babbitt as he carries out vast changes in the Interior Department and in the government's philosophy toward its public lands. Where conservatives James Watt and Manuel Lujan once presided, Babbitt now speaks as if he were in a vanguard of liberators. "There has been an ideological war going on for the past 12 years," says Babbitt, "and this department has been staff headquarters -- the battle post in Washington for an unrelenting war against the land...
...shift prompted Congressional Black Caucus chairman Edolphus Towns to declare this an "unprecedented moment in American history." In fact, a number of Southern states will send black members to the House for the first time since the turn of the century. Among the new faces: North Carolina Democrat Melvin Watt, a civil rights attorney, and Alcee Hastings, a Florida Democrat who managed to overcome the glaring taint of a 1989 House impeachment suffered during his tenure as a federal judge. To the north, one of the most talked- about new faces to join the House belongs to Illinois Democrat Bobby...