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Million-plus sign
anti-Watt petition
WASHINGTON
The Sierra Club brought 1.1
million signatures demanding
the ouster of Interior Secretary
James Watt to the Capitol steps
Monday in what the group
claimed was the largest citizen
petition ever presented to Con
gress
Sierra Club volunteers from
46 states lined up in front of a
banner proclaiming "More than
1 million Americans know
Watt's Wrong" and presented
the signatures as the culmina
tion of a six-month "Dump
Watt" campaign
"We and millions of Amer
icans believe Secretary Watt
and his programs are radically
out of step with what the people
want as our policy toward
natural resources and the en
vironment,” said Sierra Club
Pres Joseph Fontaine
Doug Baldwin. Watt's chief
spokesman, attacked the peti
tion drive as a media event
aimed at getting new members
and money for the Sierra Club
Reagan preserves
hatchery funding
OLYMPIA
The Reagan Administration
has backed away from its
proposal to cut all but $400,000
in federal funding for 22 Colum
bia River fish hatcheries.
Washington state officials said
today
Washington State Fisheries
Director Rolland Schmitten says
he has received word the ad
ministration has agreed to re
store all the money cut from the
hatchery program
Gov Vic Atiyeh praised
federal officials for listening to
logic and called the decision
"welcome and wise "
"It is gratifying to know that
the persuasion of logic can be
heard at the highest levels of the
federal government,” Atiyeh
said in a printed release
Atiyeh said the decision buys
the Northwest time to develop
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an alternative strategy to pre
serve the hatcheries as a vital
supplement to natural runs
Iran appoints
prime minister
BEIRUT, Lebanon
Iranian Pres Ali Khamenei
appointed a U S.-educated
pediatrician as prime minister
Monday If confirmed, Dr Ali
Akbar Velayati will be the only
layman holding a top govern
ment post in the fundamentalist
Moslem regime
The state-run radio said 47
Mujahedeen Khalq guerrillas
were arrested in six cities over
the past three days in the
regime’s continuing efforts to
eradicate the violent leftist op
position
In other developments, the
official news agency Pars quot
ed central bank figures as
reporting that Iran had a 25
percent inflation rate in the six
month period ending Sept 23
Housing starts
continue to fall
WASHINGTON
Housing construction started
by U S builders hit the third
lowest level in at least two
decades last month, declining
17 percent as interest rates
rose to record highs, the
government reported Monday
The bad news was com
pounded by statistics showing
that permits for future con
struction fell for the fifth straight
month, dropping nearly to the
lowest level of last year's reces
sion
Pres Reagan himself said this
weekend that it had become
apparent the nation was in "a
slight recession "
In other economic news
Monday, the Federal Reserve
Board reported that U S man
ufacturers cut back factory use
to 78 5 percent in September,
the lowest rate since last Oc
tober as the national economy
slowed The government
reported last week that the na
tion’s industrial production de
clined 0 8 percent in Sep
tember
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