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...your item on the Riverkeeper environmental group and its chief attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [PEOPLE, July 3]: Kennedy did not "secretly" rehire William Wegner as a consulting scientist. Riverkeeper's executive staff openly elected to hire Wegner, a talented scientist...
...overwhelming majority, the Riverkeeper board supported the staff decision. Wegner paid for his crime of smuggling the eggs of the cockatoo (which is not a rare bird, as you claimed) with three years in prison. He is genuinely remorseful and intent on reforming his life. Robert Boyle's decision to leave his position as president of Riverkeeper came after he was informed that the board would remove him from that office for reasons unrelated to Wegner's hiring. Boyle is an icon of the environmental movement...
...chief attorney for Riverkeeper, a New York environmental group, ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. is charged with monitoring the state's watershed and generally being greener than thou. Which makes his defense of William Wegner--a man convicted of smuggling rare cockatoo eggs into the U.S. to be hatched and sold as pets--somewhat bizarre. Riverkeeper president Robert Boyle fired Wegner, a consulting scientist, in December, when he discovered the 1995 conviction. But Kennedy secretly rehired Wegner, and at a board meeting this week, insisted that Wegner be kept on. Eight board members, including Boyle, quit in protest. "I was appalled...
...Manfred Wegner, former chief economist of the European Community, calls it simply "the American miracle...
...when I retire? Social Security is in serious financial trouble; President Reagan twice this year has considered cutbacks in retirement benefits. Meanwhile, inflation continues to eat away at the value of money people had saved for their old age-and at the amount that can be saved. Says Frances Wegner, 53, who now lives off the proceeds from the sale of her house and a widow's Social Security benefits: "Both my feet are planted on shifting sand. I hold on to every professional contact I can because I must be in a position to get back into...