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...hunters' magazine to give the deer's side of the story. Don't look for lectures on chastity in Cosmopolitan or Penthouse. Don't expect defenses of Interior Secretary James Watt in an environmental journal. The unstated premise of all specialized magazines is: Get your balance elsewhere; we're writing for like-minded people...
...feel like Nathan Hale," said he. "I regret that I have but one wife to give to my country's infrastructure." But he may have a challenger for the title of life of the party: California's new Senator, Pete Wilson, 49, who took on James Watt, the aggressive Interior Secretary. "He's off making a science-fiction sequel to E.T., "said Wilson. "It's called Raiders of the Last Park...
...Watt apparently wanted to portray environmentalists as subversive extremists so that his own rapacious policies would seem moderate by comparison. A Harris survey in the same issue of Business Week, however, showed that Americans overwhelmingly support tighter environmental regulations, despite their costs. The simple truth is that Watt himself is the extremist, concern for the environment has earned a firm position within the mainstream of American political opinion. By contrast. What's own recent shenanigans in Washington--such as revoking "protected" status for thousands of acres of land in the Midwest while Congress was in recess--betray a dangerous distregard...
...Watt's McCarthyist attack on the environmental movement was more than just clumsy. It demonstrated once again the secretary's belief that no one who disagrees with him can still be a good American. In other words, Watt seems quite confused about the difference between democratic political debate and scheming. It's an important distinction, and one that public' servants should be able to handle with ease...
When former Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.), now president of the Wilderness Society, heard of Watt's remarks, he said: "The secretary has gone bonkers. It's time the white-coat people took him away." Such action may yet prove justified. But for now, we'd be satisfied if the White House people would come for Watt's resignation...