"WHAT KIND OF STARTED OUT AS A LOVE AFFAIR quite frankly now is feeling more like a date rape," said Jay Hair of the National Wildlife Federation. The environmental honeymoon ended Tuesday when Clinton accommodated several Western Senators key to the passage of his budget package; he deleted provisions raising the minimal rates farmers and miners pay to use federal lands. Environmentalists see the discounts as a guarantee of despoilment and Clinton's act as political cowardice. They were still nervous days later when he chaired a Portland, Oregon, "forest conference" on logging and the spotted owl, topics viewed by some as...
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