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Little opposition to Utah land grab. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
Just before the 1996 presidential election, then-president Bill Clinton designated 1.7 million acres of southern Utah as a national monument, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Effectively closing off the area for mining, the act was protested by Utahns, including Utah Governor Mike Leavitt, as a cynical last-minute political ploy pandering to the environmentalist vote while punishing a state that would vote against Clinton no matter what.
How times have changed! On January 28th, Governor Mike Leavitt announced a plan to have President Bush declare another huge swath of territory in southern Utah, the 620,000-acre San Rafael Swell near Green River, as a national monument.
Governor Leavitt explained that "the Grand Staircase Monument was created by a different president who developed his executive order in complete secrecy, with no notice and no collaboration." This time around, according to Leavitt, the locals approve, and the ...
- Fearing 'Unprecedented Land Grab' During Election Year, Group Urges 60,000...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 26, 2004 700+ words
...executives come to believe that President Bush is unlikely to serve a second...companies start to worry that President Bush is fighting a losing re-election...We fear that the unprecedented land grab that we have witnessed in the...
- A war of liberation; United States must not let war for liberty turn into land...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times February 25, 2003 700+ words
...will use the forthcoming war of liberation for a selfish land grab must be prevented. At talks in Ankara last week, the United...burnt in the street. By contrast, in Iraqi Kurdistan, President Bush is wildly popular and more than 90 percent of the population...
- The Promised Land grab. (Israel's West Bank)
- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Horan, Deborah May 1, 1993 700+ words
Palestinians routinely threaten to end peace talks over them; President Bush waxed livid about them; and Prime Minister Shamir defied the world by building a record number of them. Few issues in the Arab...
- Group urges federal employees to use "land-grab" tip line.(Industry...
- Magazine article from: Pollution Engineering May 1, 2004 700+ words
...areas. CPAL's goal is to "thwart a new round of special-interest proposals ... if companies start to worry that President Bush is fighting a losing re-election battle." The mass e-mail coincided with CPAL's release of a list of "59 misdeeds...
- Where Land Grab Madigan reigns, money pours
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Steve Neal February 3, 1989 700+ words
...the most valuable acres in America. Land Grab Mike won't say exactly how much he...serious consideration to the Madigan land grab, the former official said. Madigan...in the nation have more influence than Land Grab Mike. If a member of the City Council...
- The Bredell 'land grab'.(South Africa's land redistribution policies)
- Magazine article from: African Business Nevin, Tom September 1, 2001 700+ words
...igniting fears of a Zimbabwe-style land grab. Bredell became a watchword and icon...Pakindorf points out: "In Zimbabwe, the land grab was orchestrated by the government to...South Africa, the government opposed the land grab, applied the rule of law and kept international...
- Land-Grab Mike rates O'Hare tribute to his influence
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Steve Neal January 27, 1989 700+ words
...Thompson suggested that Madigan's O'Hare land grab was illegal because a three-fourths...oppose an effort to rename the hotel for Land-Grab Mike. On the adjoining 14 acres that...City into gold for the Trump empire, Land-Grab Mike could get misty-eyed over the...
- AFRICA: FAO PAPER ON LAND GRAB IS "WISHY-WASHY"
- News wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire Julio Godoy July 9, 2009 700+ words
...In a paper on the issue, entitled "Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural...has been following the debates on the land grab in Africa, called the FAO paper "wishy...between critique and praise of the present land grab trends in Africa, and calls it a development...
Source: HighBeam Research, Little opposition to Utah land grab. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)