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The Battalion
Monday, April 10,1989
Bush faces headaches, criticism
for handling of Valdez tanker spill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush, who has declared himself
an environmentalist, has found his
first few months in office full of en
vironmental headaches and criticism
that the fresh breeze he promised
may be little more than stale air.
“The honeymoon isn’t over, but I
think we’re in a shaky period,” says
Jack Lorenz, president of the Isaak
Walton League, when assessing the
Bush administration’s record in pro
tecting the environment and natural
resources.
While Bush is given good marks
on some environmental issues, there
has been broadening criticism of the
way the administration has dealt
with the massive oil spill in Alaska,
its attitude toward oil exploration in
environmentally sensitive areas and
on some key sub-Cabinet appoint
ments to posts involving the environ
ment and conservation.
Environmentalists still applaud:
the selection of William Reilly, a life
long conservationist, as head of the
Environmental Protection Agency; a
Last Fleet Street paper
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LONDON (AP) — The last na
tional newspaper on Fleet Street,
once London’s rumbustious newspa
per row, made its Final press run
there Sunday as British journalism
traded the typewriters’ clatter for
the quiet of high technology.
Behind the gleaming, black glass
facade of the art deco Express build
ing, reporters, editors and techni
cians crated the contents of desks,
packed up their memories, and sent
off the final Fleet Street edition of
the Sunday Express before moving
to new headquarters.
When the last bundle of papers
was tied up and dispatched around
the country, all was silent where for
decades typewriters clacked, lino
type machines rattled, and presses
hummed.
Express Newspapers group is
moving only a few hundred yards
across the River Thames to a new,
10-story building with computers
and other modern newspaper tech
nology.
But the site is a million spiritual
miles from the noisy exuberance of
Fleet Street 89 years ago, when the
Daily Express was the new kid on the
block. The Sunday Express was
founded by Lord Beaverbrook in
1918, and its celebrated building
went up in 1931.
The British are avid newspaper
readers. For nearly 300 years, the
country’s national papers were all
published on or near Fleet Street.
The short, crowded street and ad
joining warren of alleys and hidden
courtyards were abuzz around the
clock with journalists rushing to
meet deadlines.
The national newspapers have
moved away one by one to compute
rized facilities since publisher Ru
pert Murdoch began the exodus in
1986. That year, his four newspa
pers — The Times, The Sunday
Times, The Sun and The News of
The World — moved to the devel
oping Docklands.
decision to work aggressively for re
visions in federal clean air laws in
cluding provisions to combat acid
rain; a decision to push internation
ally for 100 percent elimination by
the end of the century of chlorofluo-
rocarbons, a chemical blamed for
depleting high-altitude ozone; and
for Reilly’s intervention in building
the controversial Two Forks dam in
Colorado.
Nevertheless, some of the opti
mism expressed by environmental
ists when Bush took office in Jan
uary has soured.
“Clearly we’ve got problems on
our hands. And it looks like a long
siege is at hand,” Michael McClos-
key, chairman of the Sierra Club,
said last week as the leaders of nine
major environmental and conserva
tion groups chastised the Bush ad
ministration for a number of per
sonnel decisions and its response to
the Alaska oil spill.
The complaint was that Bush
wasn’t moving quickly enough to
take control for the oil spill cleanup
in Alaska from the Exxon Corp.,
whose tanker ran aground and tore
open in pristine Prince William
Sound on March 24, spilling more
than 10 million gallons of crude.
George Frampton, president of
the Wilderness Society noted that
three national parks are in theoi's
path. “It is the federal government
responsibility to prevent this dam
age,” he said.
“Mr. President, this (the oil spill)ii
your Boston Harbor," declared
Roger McManus, president of the
Center for Marine Conservation ina
news release. The pollution in Bos
ton Harbor became a campaign issue
last year as Bush sought to gain an
edge on environmental issues over
Democrat Michael Dukakis, gover
nor of Massachusetts.
The president said Friday that Ex
xon’s efforts were inadequate and
that the Coast Guard would take in
creased control of the cleanup.
There also have been personnel
decisions that have riled environ
mental groups, most notably the
nomination ot James Cason, a con
troversial Interior Departmentolfr
cial, as an assistant secretary of agn
culture overseeing the U.S. Fores
Service.
Cason, as a senior Interior De
partment official in the Reagan ad
ministration, has been accused of
consistently taking a pro-devel
opment stand on public lands issues
and being the architect of variouset-
forts in recent years favoring mining
and oil interests.
Soviet soldiers crush Georgian nationalist rail;
MOSCOW (AP) — Soldiers charged thousands of
protesters in the Georgian capital early Sunday, and at
least 16 people were killed in a crushing melee of clubs,
shovels, sticks and stones, official sources and activists
said.
“They threw themselves on our people like beasts,
and our people couldn’t do anything,” said Leda Arch-
vadze in a telephone interview from Tbilisi, capital of
the southern republic that lies on the Turkish border.
The official Tass news agency said a curfew was in ef
fect Sunday night. Residents flew black flags in mourn
ing, troops and tanks reportedly patrolled the streets,
and activists called for a general strike.
On activist said 50 people died in the clash in Lenin
Square.
Tension has been building in Georgia since Tuesday,
when thousands of hunger strikers and protesters be
gan pressing demands for independence from the So
viet Union. Georgian nationalists contend that under
Moscow’s central control, Russians have encroached on
their indigenous culture, language, politics and econ-
omv, , ,
They also accuse the Kremlin of fomenting unresi
among Georgia’s ethnic Abkhazians, who are demand
ing more autonomy.
Georgia is the third Soviet republic where authorities
have brought in troops and tanks to quell disturbances
in the past year. Similar measures were taken to quell
ethnic unrest last year in the republics of Armenia and
Azerbaijan.
In an attempt to prevent future unrest, the Soviet
Presidium on Saturday passed a decree making it illegal
to insult or discredit the government. It also mandated
fines and prison terms for those who call for the over
throw of the government, among other things.
Ms. Archvadze and another activist estimated 10,000
people were in Lenin Square when soldiers moved in at
3 a.m.
Ms. Archvadze said her information came from her
brother-in-law, Svyad Gammsachurdia, a member o(
the Helsinki Watch Committee in Tbilisi, who witnessed
the clash. He was arrested at his home several hours
later, she said.
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