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Should the gray wolf, today an endangered species in most of the U.S., be re-established in Yellowstone? An old stockman at a meeting at Laramie, Wyo., shakes with rage at the notion; the idea is like reintroducing smallpox. But to wolf partisans, the bedrock argument is a brooding, circular truth: without wolves, there are no wolves. These complex, mysterious animals are their own justification. Beyond that, biologists see predators as balance wheels in ecosystems. No wolves mean too many elk, which is what Yellowstone has now, starving by the thousands in winter die-offs...
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.--President Bush and Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev will hold their first summit meeting next year, officials announced Saturday as the two superpowers completed a half-dozen accords and cleared a major roadblock to a treaty on slashing long-range nuclear weapons...
...initial congressional campaign, and two more followed before he underwent bypass surgery last August. Cheney -- who said last week that he got his cardiologist's O.K. to take the Pentagon job -- generally shrugs off questions about his condition. "Some people are short, fat and ugly," he told the Casper (Wyo.) Star Tribune last year. "I happen to have coronary- artery disease...
WASHINGTON--President Bush yesterday named Rep. Richard Cheney (R-Wyo.) to be defense secretary, moving with surprising speed to leave behind the controversy caused by John G. Tower's rejection by the Senate...
...Bush basked in the afterglow of victory, he once again diluted his p.r. triumph with remarks that would be more appropriate for an overeager Boy Scout who had just won a survival-hike merit badge. At a chili lunch in Worland, Wyo., he told an appreciative audience, "I need combat pay for last night, I'll tell you." To a high school chemistry class in Cheyenne, he described live television: "You know, it's Tension City when you're in there...