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REDDISH KNOB OVERLOOK, Va. (AP) — With the
Shenandoah Valley’s first tinges of fall color for a back
drop, President Clinton said yesterday his sweeping plan
to place 40 million acres of federal forestland off-limits
to development would not harm the timber industry.
The remote, largely pristine parcels of land Clinton
wants to preserve represent a mere fraction of feder
ally owned forest, he said. Vast reaches of other fed
eral timberland are already available for logging and
other development, he said.
“It is very important to point out that we are not try
ing to turn our national forests into museums," Clinton
said as he detailed a plan environmentalists call pro
gressive and the timber industry has called reckless.
His program would prevent or restrict road-build
ing through the larger sections of currently roadless
federal forest, most of it in the West.
Less than 5 percent of timber harvested in Ameri
ca comes from national forests, and of that amount,
just 5 percent comes from roadless areas, Clinton said.
“We can easily adjust our federal timber program
to replace 5 percent of 5 percent," Clinton said to ap
plause, “but we can never replace what we would de
stroy if we don’t protect these 40 million acres.”
Roads open forest areas to development, erosion
and pollution. They also disrupt wildlife, plant life
and natural systems. But roadless fedetalli
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- PRESIDENT CLINTON
ON FOREST-PROTECTION PLAN
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Republicans, several of whom have alreii
nounced the forest plan, for what hedei
shortsighted views on the environment.
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forests, allow mining companies todumpt
waste on public land and give a huge windfall!
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HOPE, Ark. (AP) — The Labor
Department fined Tyson Foods Inc.
nearly $60,000 yesterday for child-
labor law violations after a teen
ager was killed at an Arkansas
plant and a young worker was in
jured in Missouri.
In the Arkansas case, investiga
tors said 15-year-old Juan Alderete
of San Felipe, Mexico, was electro
cuted when he walked into a ven
tilating fan while chasing chickens
late one night in April.
In the Missouri case, a teen
age worker seriously injured both
his legs when he slipped and fell
into an auger. He also suffered se
vere nerve damage and second-
degree burns.
The Labor Department said a
15-year-old and two 14-year-olds
also were found to be working at
the plant illegally.
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Morris Cos. is acknowledging for
the first time that smoking is
dangerous and addictive — a
turnaround that appears aimed
at protecting the company
against smokers who might
someday claim they were un
aware of dangers.
The world’s biggest cigarette
company’s acknowledgment is
spurring renewed calls for feder
al regulation of tobacco and
greater efforts to keep children
from taking their first puff.
Philip Morris, producer of the
best-selling Marlboro brand of cig
arettes, publicly acknowledged
with the debut of its ct
temet site yesterday smoke-
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