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...LEAST one way, you really have to admire Interior Secretary James G. Watt. During the one long year of his incumbency, Secretary Watt has demonstrated that the Department of the Interior need not be the subdued and quiet corner of the government it had been for so long. Watt has shown with true eclat that his department can generate a swirling storm of controversy every bit as well as the big boys at State and Defense. In fact, he has succeeded in making his policies, his picture and his off-color remarks a regular feature of the daily papers...
What concerns us is the manner in which Secretary Watt gets his press. His policies, and those of President Reagan, are nothing short of a national disgrace. The rough 'n ready, let's strip-mine-America-today policies they have advocated pose the most serious threat to the future of a habitable America this side of nuclear arms. And the announcement last week that the Administration was reversing field on those policies and had decided to ban mineral development on national lands looks increasingly like a ruse. In fact, the great turn around may actually make it easier for industry...
Certainly the spirit is willing, and the means for reform near at hand. CBN, which Robertson founded in 1960 with $70 cash, one camera and a fading 1,000-watt station in Portsmouth, Va., has become a multimillion-dollar operation (1981 income: $68 million). By the mid-'70s, CBN had added two more owned-and-operated stations, in Atlanta and Dallas, to its Portsmouth base, but what really turned the electronic tide for Robertson was a satellite. CBN beat out its brethren by leasing a transponder on RCA's Satcom 2 satellite in April 1977, thus enlarging...
ITHACA N.Y.--Using less electricity in dormitories will mean more money this sspring for students at Cornell University under a new conservations program called "Kill-A-Watt." The university will reimburse individual dormitories with cash if students use less electricity in March and April than they did at the same time last year. The Cornell Daily Sun reported this week...
...shrapnel in his back carried on the fight for three years, pressing, retreating, always recovering and trudging wearily ahead, overcoming protesting generals (Air Force Ace Robinson Risner) and multimillionaires (Ross Perot) and politicians (Congressman Phil Crane) and pundits (Columnist Pat Buchanan) and bureaucrats (Secretary of the Interior James Watt...