Tuesday, December 6,1988
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■WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost
1700 native plants are threatened
wth extinction by the year 2000,
most of them in southerly and sub
tropical regions with booming pop
ulations or economies, according to
astudy released Monday by a private
conservation group.
■The Center for Plant Conserva
tion said a I '/u-year study found that
253 species of plants may become
eitinct within five years and another
4^7 may vanish by the turn of the
century. As many as 52 of the plant
Jecies may already be extinct in the
Ski.
jSeventy-three percent of the most
critically endangered plants are
found in Hawaii, California, Texas,
Florida and Puerto Rico, according
tdthe center, a consortium of 19 bo-
ical gardens and arboreta head-
|artered in Jamaica Plain, Mass.
“What we’re dealing with here is
||st another sign of a planet in trou-
Re and indeed, a national environ-
iient in trouble,” said Thomas Love-
■tan expert cm tropical rainforests
Kd assistant secretary for external
affairs at the Smithsonian Institu-
tln.
■ Approximately 200 kinds of
■ants have already become extinct
during the past two centuries, ex-
(jti ts generally agree, and conserva
tionists worry the rate may accele-
K
rate as population and economic
growth jeopardize plant habitat. A
1973 study by the Smithsonian
found that 3,000 of the nation’s
25,000 species are endangered.
“Working with endangered spe
cies means working against the
clock,” Donald Falk, executive direc
tor of the Center for Plant Conserva
tion, told a news conference at the
Smithsonian. “It’s kind of like being
in the emergency room all the time.
“Every species lost represents an
.irretrievable loss of biological diver
sity and potential ecological values
and potential human values,” Falk
said. “Once a species goes extinct,
you can’t then change your mind.
You can’t then say . . . that species
was beautiful, or that might have
helped medicine or that species
might have been scientifically inter
esting or might have been ecologi
cally significant.
Falk said the large majority of crit
ically threatened plants are in south
erly and subtropical areas that are
naturally biologically diverse, while
at the same time are experiencing in
tense economic and population
growth and an intense rate of extrac
tion of natural resources.
If the center’s predictions on ex
tinction are close to being accurate,
the United States and the world face
“the most catastrophic loss of species
that’s ever been experienced in evo
lutionary time,” Falk said.
He said it would cost $10 million
to $15 million to protect and propa
gate all 680 of the threatened plants,
$6 million to $7 million to target
only those in the priority areas, or $3
million to $4 million to save only
plants facing extinction within five
years.
Falk said almost almost every part
of the economy is dependent on the
health of the environment or natural
resources, from oil and coal to fish
eries and timbering to pharmaceuti
cals.
“So it seems rash at best and in
sane at worst for us to be tampering
with building blocks of ecosystems
and communities of entire species of
plants and animals,” Falk said. “En-
dangerment represents a rather elo
quent message from nature, and it’s
nature in trouble, and we’re going to
pay the price as a society if we don’t
listen.”
He said the loss of species diver
sity ranks with the “big global Exce-
drin headaches” such as global
warming, loss of the ozone layer,
acid rain and food shortages.
Some of the endangered plants
are relatives of important timber
products, food groups or plants
used in horticulture and landscap
ing, Falk said.
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usey listed
as critical
after wreck
CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP)—
ctor Cary Busey was in critical
condition Sunday with severe
lead injuries after losing control
if his motorcycle, authorities
aid.
Busey, 44, of Malibu was being
xamined by doctors and neuro
surgery was planned Sunday
night, said Ron Wise, spokesman
"orCedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Busey’s work as the doomed
950s rock star in the title role of
The Buddy Holly Story” earned
tim an Academy Award nomi-
ation. A one-time rock ’n’ roll
misician himself, and like Holly a
tadve of Texas, Busey per-
ormed his own renditions of
dolly songs in the film.
No other vehicles were in-
olved in the crash 10 miles west
if downtown Los Angeles, police
igt. Gary McEwen said.
“He was on his motorcycle and
vent down,” McEwen said.
The crash occurred at about
:40 a.m., police Sgt. Karin Rea-
n said.
“Our initial investigation
^howed that he lost control of the
MRike, laid it down and was thrown
iff,” Reagan said. “He hit the
urb with his head and wasn’t
Ivearing a helmet at the time of
:he crash.”
In addition to his role as
| Buddy Holly in the 1978 film,
1 (JTl Busey has appeared in films such
is “Big Wednesday,” “A Star Is
Born,” “Lethal Weapon,”
1‘Carnv” and “The Bear.”
Michel: House ethics
‘a national disgrace’
AT&T fights rate regulation
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
Robert H. Michel, re-elected House
Republican leader Monday, decried
the low ethical quality of the House
and called on Democrats to join in
an effort to reform ethics standards
and election campaign practices and
limit outside speaking fees.
“T he record of (ethics) enforce
ment in this House is a national dis
grace,” the Illinois Republican said
as House members met in separate
party caucuses to choose leaders for
the 101 st Congress.
Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas,
unanimously selected by the 260-
member Democratic bloc for his sec
ond two-year term as the top House
officer, disagreed with Michel’s as
sessment but offered to discuss the
issues with him.
“For the most part, members of
the House . . . are decent, responsi
ble and ethical people,” said Wright,
whose personal finances and possi
ble divulging of government secrets
are under investigation by the
House ethics committee. He has
denied any wrongdoing.
The exchanges between Wright
and Michel came as both parties
elected their leaders for the new
Congress, which begins Jan. 3. Two
female House members lost bids to
crack the all-male top leadership
ranks on both sides of the aisle, but
Rep. William Gray, D-Pa., was
named to the Democrats’ No. 4 post,
the highest level ever achieved by a
black party member.
Michel, who was chosen unani
mously by the 175-member GOP
contingent for a fifth term as mi
nority leader, did not refer to any
specific ethics cases in his remarks.
He specifically called upon
Wright and other Democratic lead
ers to join with them in forming a bi
partisan task force, aiming to fash
ion reforms of ethics standards,
outside income and campaign prac
tices.
In his acceptance speech several
hours later, Wright said the House
would pass “clean elections legis
lation,” but the only specific propo
sal he mentioned was to establish
uniform poll closing times nation
wide.
Wright also said the new House in
the 101st Congress would approve a
new Clean Air Act and would work
to clean up areas of business prac
tices where Congress thinks manage
ment needs regulation.
He cited the disappearance of
banks, corporations and farms in
economic reshufflings and lever
aged buyouts that “intensify and
concentrate economic wealth in
fewer and fewer hands.”
On the Republican side, Rep.
Lynn Martin of Illinois came up four
votes short of beating Rep. Jerry Le
wis of California for chairrpan of the
House Republican Conference, the
No. 3 GOP leadership post. Rep. Bill
Dannemeyer of California was a dis
tant third.
Rep. Mary Rose Oakar, D-Ohio,
was easily defeated by Gray in the
voting for chairman of the House
Democratic Caucus, the fourth-
highest rung on a leadership ladder
that traditionally has led to the
speaker’s office. Rep. Mike Synar, D-
Okla., ran third.
Gray earned high marks over the
past four years as Budget Commit
tee chairman, a pivotal House post.
have to,” he said.
Commission, an AT&T offi-
|t|rsaid Monday.
■ “If Texas long-distance compa-
Inies are content with a regulatory
||stem that artificially inflates prices,
stilles introduction of new services
and, in general, inhibits competition,
at’s what they will continue to get
under this proposal,” AT&T Vice
■resident Pres Sheppard said.
PUC administrative law judge
Elizabeth Drews recommended on
Nov. 14 that the state continue its
oversight of AT&T’s intrastate rates
for basic long-distance service to res
idential and business customers.
Drews also suggested partial de
control of some AT&T services,
such as private-line and WATS serv
ices used by businesses.
AT&T is the only long-distance
company regulated by the PUC.
Sheppard said Drews had ignored
the fact that Texas is the most com
petitive market in the country, and
that customers can chose from 89
companies providing basic long-dis
tance service.
AT&T sought deregulation of its
Texas rates from the 1987 Legis
lature, but lawmakers rejected the
company’s attempt and directed the
PUC to study the long-distance in
dustry in Texas before allowing
AT&T to set its own prices.
AT&T, which presented 13 wit
nesses and filed more than 1,400
pages in its case before the PUC, in
sists that AT&T is not seeking de
regulation but equal regulation with
its competitors.
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