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Oregon daily
emerald
Tuesday, October 18, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 32
Professor deems Clark
not as qualified as Watt
By Brooks Dareff
Of the Emerald
While Interior Secretary-designate
William Clark will be easier to deal with
than current Interior Secretary James Watt,
he is less qualified than Watt, says Sanford
Tepfer, University Biology professor and
Sierra Club Secretary.
Watt regularly dealt with environmental
issues "over a period of many
years.. although he was always on the
other side of the issue than we were,”
Tepfer says. Watt is a former head of The
Mountain States Legal Foundation, which
Tepfer calls "an anti-environmental
organization supportive of major
industries.”
Clark's experience with environmental
issues came during his tenure as a Califor
justice, a position to
which he was appointed
by then-Cov. Ronald
Reagan in 1973. Like
Watt, Clark "came down
on the wrong side of
every issue as far as
we're concerned,''
Tepfer says.
As a judge his opinions_
on cases were not
"politically motivated," and therefore,
Tepfer believes were his own opinions.
Clark's judicial record leads Tepfer to
believe Clark, the National Security Ad
viser, will be a "pro-development and anti
preservation" interior secretary.
In 1980 a survey in the UCLA Law Review
ranked Clark as the most pro-development
and "least pro-preservationist” of the seven
state justices. The survey listed about 50
environment-related decisions which Clark
participated in.
Included was a 1974 case that required an
environmental impact statement for test
holes that Occidental Oil Co. wanted to
drill a few hundred feet inland on the Los
Angeles coast.
In his dissent on the 4-3 ruling, Clark
wrote that no environmental impact state
ment was required because the drilling
would have "no significant effect on the
environment."
Sierra Club Pres. Denny Shaffer has tried
to set up a meeting with the Interior
Secretary-designate, and Tepfer says he
"expects that he will meet."
The Sierra Club and other environmental
groups made similar overtures to Watt, but
Watt refused to meet with environmental
groups he considered extremists, Tepfer
says.
However, "we don't have any illusions,"
that interior department policies will
change or that those policies are and will be
anything but a reflection of the Reagan ad
ministration's policies, he says.
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change will come with
an administration
change,” he says.
"Watt made a good
target,'-' Tepfer says,
"but basically we're
fighting Watt-ism,"
which he defines as an
"exploitive" approach to
_ resources ana tne
environment.
Tepfer resents being labeled a radical by
people like Watt, claiming he's the cOnser
vative. “Reagan and his cohorts are the real
radicals today," he says. "If you're a conser
vative you don't chop (all) the trees down."
Nor does Tepfer think all conservatives
are in the other party.
If you compare the Reagan administration
with the Nixon administration, "Nixon
comes out smelling like roses." For in
stance 1080, a non-discriminatory poison
used against coyotes which affects the
whole food chain, was banned under the
Nixon administration in 1972.
Reagan, on the other hand, was made "a
fool" by the National Academy of Science,
on acid rain, Tepfer says.
7 think the only real
change will come
with an administra
tion change'
— Sanford Tepfer
Quack attack hits hard
The almost unheard of happened Monday as people arrived at Mac
Court as early as 7:30 a.m. to buy tickets to an Oregon football game.
More than 1,200 tickets were sold, according to Hunt Holsapple,
athletic ticket manager, when 100 would be a lot for one day.
About 6,000 reserve seat tickets remain and about 2,200 student tickets
are left. General admission tickets won't go on sale until later this week.
Photo by Dave Kao
Photo by Dave Kao
Greens activist Tom Todd believes nuclear war is a
certainty.
Activist opposes deployment
By Doug Nash
Of the Emerald
A member of Germany's left-wing "Green” party was
on campus Monday, charging that next month's plan
ned deployment of American Pershing II and cruise
missiles will make nuclear war a certainty within the
next 10 years.
"The deployment of Pershing II is absolutely irrespon
sible because it increases the probability of nuclear war
in Central Europe," said Tom Todd, a 27-year-old,
English-born activist now living in Hamburg, Germany.
"The only way we're going to get out of the situation is
with a unilateral disarmament."
Todd is representing the Green's views in the Rock
Against Reagan tour, a series of concerts across the
country that protest the policies of the Reagan
administration.
"This is not only a Green party thing," Todd said
about the deployment issue. "It is a very wide
movement."
Indeed, Todd said the movement includes not only
the far left, but unions, protestants and the Social
Democrats, the country's second-largest party.
"Four million people, or 7 percent of the population,
are expected to be on the streets all over the country" in
the coming weeeks, Todd said. "There are differences
(between specific factions of the movement) but there is
one central thing that everybody agrees on: nonviolent
action against Pershing II missiles."
Todd expressed hope that a large political coalition
would be able to pressure the conservative government
of Helmut Kohl to prevent the missile deployment.
"If we succeed in getting them to accept this point of
view and if they put pressure on Helmut Kohl, then
there's a chance he will put pressure on the Americans."
In addition, Todd said the Greens plan to call for a na
tional election to decide the issue. He was doubtful,
however, that his party, which comprises 5.6 percent, or
27 members of the federal parliament would be able to
gather the necessary support for such a proposal.
Todd conceded the eventual missile deployment
could cause some loss of support for the Greens, which
is really a four-year-old conglomeration of formerly
small, liberal, environmentalist, grass-roots
organizations.
"Once the Pershings are deployed, perhaps a certain
amount of defeatism will arise," he said.
But the party's "non-dogmatic" structure, which Todd
said has no political parallels in this country, will con
tinue to attract individuals, he added. .
"It’s possible to work in local political groups at the
local level and still be involved in a national network,”
Todd said. "Decision-making (within the party) is taken
down to the lower levels of the hierarchy. That's the
difference."
Todd said the party is so concerned with preventing
individual power that its representatives in parliament
are replaced every two years by other Green members.
Furthermore, he denounced the perception by a some
parts of the population that equates Greens with
communists.
"We are friends with the Russians in so far as when
the atomic bomb drops, they're going to be affected by
the fallout just as we are, so we do have one thing in
common."
Todd said Reagan's assertion that the Soviets hold
nuclear superiority in Europe "is a lie." Rather, he said,
the United States is deploying the missiles in order to
have a "first-strike" capability.
"The basic feeling (within the Green party) is there's
going to be a war in the next 10 years. This war is going
to be started by Reagan."