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...social spending, but that the Administration can save $20.3 billion through "management initiatives," some of which seem exceedingly questionable. For example, the Reaganauts expect to raise $8.4 billion by accelerated leasing of offshore oil and gas lands, even though environmentalist objections have already forced Secretary of the Interior James Watt to pull back from his billion-acre leasing program...
...platform covered by a small camping tent. He was never allowed to get up or move around the apartment outside the tent. He washed himself with a pail of water brought to him once a week, and was supplied with a chemical toilet. His captors hung a white 40-watt light bulb in the tent during what Dozier took to be daytime, and replaced it with a blue 40-watt bulb, presumably at night. His daily regimen included exercising as best he could inside the tent, occasionally reading (George Orwell's 1984, clippings from TIME and various newspapers about...
Secretary of the Interior James Watt may merit a C for attempting to implement the President's plans, but for those who love parks, rivers, seashores and nature, an F is far too high a mark...
...Watt, 43, has managed to keep the full backing of the White House on matters of substance, though not of style. In seeking to redress what he calls the "environmental extremist" bias of the past, he has alienated not only liberal environmentalist groups like the Sierra Club but such conservative organizations as the National Wildlife Federation and the National Audubon Society. Even the Los Angeles Times, which endorsed Reagan's candidacy and his pro-development policy, has called for Watt's resignation...
Ideally, an Interior Secretary should try to balance the conflicting demands of development and conservation. Watt has yet to prove to critics that he cares very much about the latter. He far too often sounds as if he is still a litigator for the Mountain States Legal Foundation, which was founded by right-wing Brewer Joseph Coors and other businessmen to fight wilderness conservation efforts in the West. Last week, for example, Watt decreed that members of the National Park Service and top Interior Department aides should refrain from "wasting Government money by talking to national conservation leaders." He also...