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Conservation group
issues "Watt Book"
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Wilder-.
ness Society issued a four-pound "Watt
Book" yesterday, saying its contents
prove Interior Secretary James Watt
should be fired immediately for trying
to destroy 20 years of environmental
progress.
After just six months in office, the
group said, Watt has taken at least 43
actions or proposed actions that "run
counter to federal law or clearly
established, public sentiment on con-
servation and the environment."
WATT CAME under simultaneous at-
tack on the Senate floor, where the
assistant Democratic leader, Califor-
nian Alan Cranston, called him a "pup-
pet of the exploiters and the
destroyers."
Citing the secretary's actions on of-
fshore drilling, the Outer Continental
Shelf and marine sanctuaries, Cranston
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said Watt "has exceeded even the wor-
st-case estimate of his harshest
critics."
William Turnage, executive director
of the Wilderness Society, told a news
conference Watt "has. begun a cam-
paign to systematically dismantle two
decades of environmental progress in
the UnitedStates."
"IT IS BOTH incredible and tragic
that a Cabinet officer can go so astray
so quickly that he prompts production
of a four-pound book on his actions
during his first six months," he said.
"There is solid citizen support for the
immediate dismissal of Jaies Watt
and we today call on President Reagan
to do just that."
The book is a loose-leaf binder that
documents in depth more than 20 of
Watt's -actions. The group said it is
designed to help the media, members of
Congress "and others who must
monitor Watt's activities."
THE SOCIETY criticized Watt for
imposing a moratorium on acquisition
of new national parkland; failing to ad-
dress the serious threats posed to
national parks by increasing pollution,
and refusing to ban dune buggies from
newly acquired national seashores.
It also criticized him for giving com-
mercial fishermen lifetime fishing
rights in Everglades National Park, in-
stead-of phasing such rights out, and of
trying to further open wilderness areas
to mining.
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Killings disrupt Iran elections
ANKARA;Turkey-Opponents of Iran's Islamic regime killed at least five
people yesterday in hit-and-run attacks aimed at disrupting nationwide elec-
tions to choose a successor toousted President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.
Despite the killings and a reported boycott call by Bani-Sadr, authorities
said the turnout was heavier than in January 1980, when 12 million voters
elected Bani-Sadr in the first presidential elections in Iran's history.
Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Rajai was widely favored to win the
presidency and other fundamentaligts were expected to win the parliament
seats made vacant through natural causes, the expulsion of Bani-Sadr sup-
porters, and the deaths of 27 deputies in last month's terror blast that killed
74 ranking officials.
State-run Tehran radio said "American lackeys" were responsible for the
election day attacks, which came just hours after polls opened.
In New York, a group of anti-Khomeini Iranian students took over the
Statue of Liberty today in a peaceful demonstration over Iranian elections,
officials said.
Police said 35 demonstrators were on the island, and four had been
arrested. At least two had either chained or handcuffed themselves to the
statue, said a spokeswoman for the National Parks Service.
Soviets buy U.S. grain
WASHINGTON--The Soviet Union has resumed buying American grain
for the first time since thelifting of the U.S. grain embargo, Agriculture
Secretary John Block said yesterday.
Block said the SovietUnion has bought 450,000 metric tons of U.S. corn for
delivery after Sept. 30, the dte a current five-year grain agreement bet-
ween the two countries expires.
The disclosure cante hours after an announcement that the United States
and the Soviet Union will meet early next month in Vienna to talk over a
possible new grainagreement between the two countries.
Officials said the exact two or three days in August are sbject to the
Kremlin's final confirmation, which is expected shortly.
The sales-the first to the Soviet Union since the partial embargo was lif-
ted three months ago-were reported to the USDA by private exporters as
part of the regular export reporting procedure, officials said.
Hotel walkways were doomed
to collapse, engineers say
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Engineers hired by a law firm to investigate the
deadly collapse of two aerial walkways at the Hyatt Regency Hotel reported
the sky bridges were doomed to fall because of a design problem, an attor-
ney for the firm said yesterday.
The disaster in the elegant hotel a week ago killed 11 revelers and dancers
and left 8e more hospitalized, some with serious injuries.
In another development, lawyers filing lawsuits in the case questioned the
removal Thursday of the hotel's remaining skywalk-a carpeted structure
identical to the two walkways that collapsed.
Lynn Johnson, apartner in a Kansas City law firm that has filed suit on
behalf of the family of a victim, said two engineers hired by the firm believe
the skywalks were destined to fall.
Although the engineers were reluctant to explain their findings until their
investigation is complete,- they said they believe the general structural
design of the rods and beams used to support all three skywalks was
inadequate.
Fonda detained at airport
DENVER-Police said they detained actor Peter Fonda at Stapleton In-
ternational Airport yesterday after he cut up a cardboard sign belonging to a
pro-nuclear group that read, "Feed Jane Fonda to the Whales."
Police Lt. Paul Kaiser said Fonda, 42, the brother of the Oscar-winning ac-
tress and son of actor Henry Fonda, was cited for misdemeanor destruction
of private property. He allegedly pulled out a knife and destroyed the sign
posted outside an airport terminal booth, said Kaiser.
Miss Fonda has campaigned vigorously on behalf of anti-nuclear causes.
The sign belonged to a group that calls itself the Fusion Energy Foun-
dation, according to Kaiser.
Fear of PBB causes firm to
cancel scrap metal order
LANSING-A steel firm with plants in Pennsylvania has canceled a ship-
ment of scrap metal from Gratiot County because of reports it may be tain-
ted with traces of PBB and other toxic chemicals.
Department of Natural Resources officials said they were unaware of the
decision by Armco Steel and neither they nor company officials knew where
the refugee shipment has wound up.
"It's not my problem, frankly," said Jack Bails of the DNR. "It'stheir
business, not ours," he said.
The scrap is pieces of the former Michigan Chemical Co. plant at St. Louis,
Mich. which once manufactured PBB and other chemicals. Velsicol
Chemical Co., the current owner, is attempting to dispose of the plant
buildingsoand other materials under the watchful eye of state and federal of-
ficials.
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