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...interview in the current issue of Business Week magazine, Watt said environmental groups are using environmental concerns "as a tool to achieve a greater objective," which he says is centralized planning and control of the society...
WASHINGTON--Interior Secretary James Watt, already besieged for his remarks about American Indians, drew added fire yesterday for saying his environmental critics are pursuing the "greater objective" of central control of society, just as the German Nazis and Russian Bolsheviks...
...Look what happened to Germany in the 1930s. The dignity of man was subordinated to the powers of Nazism," Watt told the magazine. The dignity of man was subordinated in Russia. Those are the forces that this thing can evolve into...
Michael McCloskey executive director of the Sierra Club said, Only James Watt could fail to see the difference between Hermann Goring and John Muir a 19th century naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club...
...Watt later surprised environmentalists by declaring he would issue no more drilling leases in 200 million acres of wild land, even though the law technically permits him to do so during the last three months of this year. As it happens, the lands will be exempt from leasing anyway when a congressionally imposed moratorium takes effect Dec. 31, 1983, and Watt's previous attempts at lease issuance have met with strong resistance on Capitol Hill. Admitted the Secretary: "It is not worth the political hassle...