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Plug for a Park. On occasion, W.W.F. members have used their prestige to help stem the destruction of endangered species. Charles Lindbergh singlehanded stopped the slaughter of the blue whale off Peru in 1966 by going directly to its President and persuading him to order a stay on the hunting of the species by all whalers. Prince Bernhard has pressured the heads of state of several countries to become more active conservationists. When he visited Ethiopia a few years ago, he sent advance notice that he wanted to visit a national park-knowing full well that none existed in Ethiopia...
...True enough, the more moderate consensus approach has serious drawbacks and risks. It consists, as Okun says, of "controls for the big fellow and sermons for the little fellow." Okun justifies the seeming unfairness by drawing a distinction between economic "whales" and "minnows," and contending that "careless swimming by the whale and careless swimming by the minnow are very different matters so far as the safety of the creatures of the sea is concerned...
...Hickel's answer is that ultimately it is the Federal Government that has to assume the responsibility. Says Hickel: "The Federal Government has to care. It has an obligation of ownership to more than 200 million Americans. A perfect example of not owning and not caring is the whale. No one owns the ocean, so everyone goes out to exploit the whale. The same thing is true of public lands." Moreover, to feel ownership, Americans need leadership. On close inspection, his definition of leadership is not far from his description of himself. "If I have an obsession," Hickel writes...
...advocate in Washington. But he is not without some plans for reform of his own. In the Commerce Department, Stans started an ombudsman scheme that provides businessmen with an office where they can take complaints about the Government, and he supported the campaign against further U.S. hunting of endangered whale species. (But he recently upheld the "harvesting" of Alaskan seals by means of clubbing...
...Gang Rape. The inerrancy doctrine is at the heart of the present strife. Preus and many other conservatives take the fundamentalist view, which holds that such biblical passages as the Adam and Eve account and even Jonah's journey inside the whale are historically true. For most moderates, however, inerrancy means rather that major doctrines, such as original sin, are divinely inspired truth, while specific stories like that of Adam and Eve or Jonah could be just illustrations of a larger truth...