Report: Halliburton exposed troops to bad water
Monday, January 23, 2006
AP's LARRY MARGASAK - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Troops and civilians at a U.S. military base in Iraq were exposed to contaminated water last year and employees for the responsible contractor, Halliburton, couldn't get their company to inform camp residents, according to interviews and internal company documents.
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Rev. Jackson Prays With Schiavo's Family
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
AP's Mike Schneider - - Casper Star-Tribune
| As Terri Schiavo entered her 12th full day without food or water, the Rev. Jesse Jackson prayed with her parents Tuesday and joined conservatives in calling for state lawmakers to order her feeding tube reinserted.
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Sharon Threatens to Halt Peace Process
Monday, February 28, 2005
AP's MARK LAVIE - - Casper Star-Tribune
| JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened Sunday to freeze peace efforts if the Palestinian leadership does not crack down on militant groups after a weekend suicide bombing in Tel Aviv killed four Israelis and wounded dozens.
At a Cabinet meeting, Israel decided to suspend a plan to turn control of five West Bank towns over to the Palestinians and free 400 more prisoners. Those gestures were agreed upon at a Feb. 8 summit in Egypt, where Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas declared a truce.
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Court: Couple can sue insurance company
Saturday, February 12, 2005 CHAD BALDWIN - - Casper Star-Tribune
| U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson in Cheyenne ruled in July 2003 that the insurance company had fulfilled its obligation to the Pehles. Farm Bureau Insurance was not required to tell them of the positive HIV test, the judge said in dismissing the couple's lawsuit against the company.
But a federal appeals court this week reinstated the lawsuit, ordering Johnson to conduct a jury trial on the matter. The three-member panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, found that while Farm Bureau Insurance wasn't required to disclose the positive HIV test results to the Pehles, the company had a duty to disclose information "sufficient to cause a reasonable applicant to inquire further."
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Casper boardings rise as air fares fall
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 TOM MAST - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Casper's airline boardings last year hit their highest level since 1992, supercharged by a fourth quarter in which Northwest Airlines initiated local jet service to Minneapolis/St. Paul.
More than 70,300 passengers boarded at Natrona County International Airport in 2004, up 14 percent from 2003. There were 21,246 in the final quarter alone. Northwest began its new flights on Oct. 4.
Casper is on pace to surpass 80,000 boardings in 2005.
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Wild horses would lose protections under bill
Wednesday, December 8, 2004 ROBERT GEHRKE - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Thousands of wild horses that run free across 10 Western states will be stripped of federal protection enjoyed for more than three decades under a provision slipped into a spending bill headed for the president's desk.
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Iraq Officials Seek Delay for Elections
Saturday, November 27, 2004
AP's ROBERT H. REID - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Leading Iraqi politicians called Friday for a six-month delay in the Jan. 30 election because of the spiraling violence as U.S. forces uncovered more bodies in the northern city of Mosul, apparent victims of an intimidation campaign by insurgents against Iraq's fledgling security forces.
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Iran Says It Has Halted Uranium Enrichment
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
AP's GEORGE JAHN - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Iran said Monday it has frozen all uranium enrichment programs, weakening a U.S. effort to refer Tehran's suspect nuclear activities to the U.N. Security Council. President Bush said he hoped the statement is true but "there must be verification."
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A litigation blizzard
Sunday, November 14, 2004 WHITNEY ROYSTER - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Under the gray Jackson Hole skies that intermittently promise snow, Philip Frankovic has work to do.
He's pulling out 38 four-stroke snowmobiles from storage and getting them ready for the winter season.
Of course, he doesn't know how much they'll be used.
Small-business owner Frankovic is the classic example of the monkey in the middle. As snowmobile groups and conservationists continue to battle over the future winter access in Yellowstone National Park, both say they are looking out for Frankovic's future.
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Enviros say they'll stay the course
Sunday, November 14, 2004 WHITNEY ROYSTER - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Despite a clear commitment from the Bush administration to allow snowmobiles to continue to enter Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, conservation groups opposed to the idea plan to stay the course.
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In Casper, it was Bush for sure
Thursday, November 4, 2004 Jenni Dillon - - Casper Star-Tribune
| The people called it, and then the losing candidate called it.
As the nation waited Wednesday morning for the outcome of the race in Ohio that was still too close to officially call, many local voters had already decided the election between President George Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry.
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Sportsmen talk politics at Stroock forum
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 W. DALE NELSON - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Whoever is elected president next week, America's hunters and fishermen will have greater influence in Washington than in the past, a national environmental journalist predicted Tuesday.
"As a group, hunters and anglers are more likely to be Republican than Democratic," said Elizabeth Shogren, environmental correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.
Nevertheless, Shogren told the 10th annual Stroock Forum on Wyoming Lands and People, many sportsmen felt that environmental policies of the Bush administration were "going too far, and threatened lands that they hold dear."
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White House on Defensive After Bremer Talk
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
AP's Scott Lindlaw - - Casper Star-Tribune
| The White House staunchly defended its Iraq policy Tuesday as new questions emerged about President Bush's prewar decisions and postwar planning. An impending weapons report undercut the administration's main rationale for the war, and the former head of the American occupation said the United States had too few troops in Iraq after the invasion.
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Site of Cheney event once played host to RFK
Saturday, October 2, 2004 BRENDAN BURKE - - Casper Star-Tribune
| When Vice President Dick Cheney attends a Wyoming Republican Party fund-raiser tonight at the Poplar Street residence of Diemer True, a Republican national committeeman and former Wyoming Senate president, it will not be the first time a major political figure has attended an event on that property, according to True's neighbor Charles Kudolla.
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Wavering Voters Anti-Iraq, Wary of Kerry
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Casper Star-Tribune
| In an election where most voters have already chosen sides, the presidency could be decided by a small slice of America in the mushy middle -- wavering voters who are more likely than others to question President Bush's honesty and think the war in Iraq was a mistake.
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Pearl Slaying Suspect Killed in Pakistan
Monday, September 27, 2004
AP's ZARAR KHAN - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said. At least two other men were arrested.
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An industry in transition
Sunday, September 19, 2004 DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER - - Casper Star-Tribune
| GILLETTE -- A crisp, resounding THWAP!
That's the sound that would be heard if coal-bed methane producers were to slap their heads at the same time as they came to this realization:
We could have produced half the number of wells, avoided half the impacts and gotten the same amount of gas.
Laramie-based WellDog Inc. is delivering some startling news to producers in the Powder River Basin coal-bed methane industry. Using its patented spectroscopy technology to measure down-hole gas content in coal and in water that resides in coals, the company says it can predict and rank the top producers in a group of wells.
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20 Said Killed in U.S. Airstrikes in Iraq
Monday, September 13, 2004
AP's BASSEM MROUE - - Casper Star-Tribune
| BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. warplanes unleashed devastating airstrikes on a suspected hideout where operatives from an al-Qaida-linked group were meeting Monday, and hospital officials said 20 people died.
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No rush in Wyo to stock weapons
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER - - Casper Star-Tribune
| GILLETTE -- When Wyoming gun enthusiasts talk about cosmetics and accessories, they're not speaking the fashion language of glitter scarves and oversized bracelets.
They're talking about high-capacity magazines, flash suppressors and collapsible stocks -- all contraband under a weapons ban that expired Monday.
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Big airlines facing day of reckoning
Sunday, September 12, 2004
AP's BRAD FOSS - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Several long-suffering airlines appear to have reached a breaking point, with fuel prices unrelentingly high, cash reserves dwindling and customers addicted to cheap fares. US Airways may file for bankruptcy court protection a second time and could be forced to liquidate, Delta is on the precipice of bankruptcy and United is battling an employee revolt as it aims to scrap its pension plans.
The frantic restructuring under way at these carriers and others means more anguish for workers and shareholders, although fliers in most markets should continue to see an abundance of low fares. While not every carrier is guaranteed to survive, analysts say the imminent upheaval could augur a brighter long-term future for the industry.
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Boeing prepares Airbus fight
Thursday, September 9, 2004 Les Blumenthal - - Casper Star-Tribune (McClatchy)
| President Bush's threat to pursue a high-profile international trade case over government subsidies for Airbus comes not without risk for Boeing, even as the company has urged the White House to get tough with its European competitor.
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Bush Backs Authority for Intel Director
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - Casper Star-Tribune
| The White House unveiled plans Wednesday to give a new national intelligence director strong budgetary authority over much of the nation's intelligence community, a key provision in the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations.
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Democrats denounce overtime rule
Tuesday, September 7, 2004 TARA WESTREICHER - - Casper Star-Tribune
| The new overtime rule that took effect last month is just one example of the Bush administration's attempt to whittle away workers' rights, said Wyoming Democrats attending Casper's annual Labor Day picnic at City Park.
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Bush's National Guard File Missing Records
Monday, September 6, 2004
AP's MATT KELLEY - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Documents that should have been written to explain gaps in President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service are missing from the military records released about his service in 1972 and 1973, according to regulations and outside experts.
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Suicide Bomber Kills 10 at Moscow Subway
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
AP's STEVE GUTTERMAN - - Casper Star-Tribune
| MOSCOW - A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station Tuesday night, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 50 in the second terrorist attack to hit Russia in a week, officials said.
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Delegates, Protesters Descend on New York
Sunday, August 29, 2004
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Abortion-rights protesters and the first Republican delegates descended on President Bush's heavily fortified convention city Saturday as campaign officials said their boss would use the nomination spotlight to defend his hawkish foreign polices and offer a second-term agenda for health care, education and job training.
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Iraq Militants Leave Shrine in Peace Deal
Friday, August 27, 2004
AP's ABDUL HUSSEIN AL-OBEIDI - - Casper Star-Tribune
| NAJAF, Iraq - Militants filed out of the Imam Ali Shrine, closed the doors behind them and turned over the keys to Iraq's top Shiite cleric Friday, symbolizing their acceptance of a peace deal to end three weeks of devastating fighting in this holy city.
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Analysis: Doctors a Part of Iraq Abuse
Friday, August 20, 2004
AP's Emma Ross - - Casper Star-Tribune
| LONDON - Doctors working for the U.S. military in Iraq collaborated with interrogators in the abuse of detainees at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, profoundly breaching medical ethics and human rights, a bioethicist charges in The Lancet medical journal.
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Kerry Decries Bush Plan to Recall Troops
Thursday, August 19, 2004
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Casper Star-Tribune
| John Kerry, telling fellow combat veterans he's their "true brother in arms," said Wednesday that President Bush's plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Europe and Asia would weaken U.S. security and embolden nuclear-armed North Korea.
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Ladd wins
Thursday, August 19, 2004 TOM MORTON - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Political newcomer Ted Ladd of Wilson won the Democratic nomination for Wyoming's lone U.S. House seat on Tuesday, narrowly defeating fellow newcomer John Henley of Casper.
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Ladd holds narrow lead over Henley
Tuesday, August 17, 2004 TOM MORTON - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Political newcomer Ted Ladd of Wilson held a narrow lead over fellow newcomer John Henley of Casper, in their bid for the Democratic nomination for Wyoming's lone U.S. House seat, according to early unofficial results.
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Cubin sails to GOP victory
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 TARA WESTREICHER - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Incumbent Barbara Cubin held a large early lead in Wyoming's Republican U.S. House race, receiving 52 percent, or 19,865 statewide votes, according to unofficial results at around 9 p.m. Tuesday.
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Get ready, get set -- vote
Tuesday, August 17, 2004 TOM MORTON - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Now it's your turn.
The candidates -- especially in contested party primaries with Democrats, Libertarians, and Republicans for their nominations for the general election in November -- have put their signs up and got their messages down.
Today, the many polling places throughout Natrona County welcome you to walk in, register if you need to, take a ballot and step into a booth to vote for your favorite candidates.
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Feds plan wild horse removal
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 JEFF GEARINO - - Casper Star-Tribune
| GREEN RIVER -- Federal land managers plan to use roundups, and possibly fertility control, to significantly reduce the number of animals in wild horse herds north of Lander.
The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to remove more than 250 excess wild horses from public rangelands within the Muskrat Basin, Conant Creek, Rock Creek, Mountain and Dishpan Butte Herd Management Areas, known as the complex, beginning in October.
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Internet phones spark debate in Congress
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 MICHAEL COLLINS - - Casper Star-Tribune (Scripps Howard News Service)
| Rapidly developing technology already available in homes across the country allows people to make telephone calls over high-speed Internet connections.
Many plans include unlimited long-distance calling. And, in what industry experts say is a real selling point for the service, subscribers can pick the area code they want. In other words, Cincinnati natives living in Los Angeles could get a Cincinnati 513 area code, allowing them to phone home -- or their friends to call them -- as though it were a local call.
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Iraq Cleric Vows Fight to Death Vs. U.S.
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
AP's ABDUL HUSSEIN AL-OBEIDI - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Militant cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose Shiite militia has been battling U.S. forces across Iraq, warned Monday that he would fight "until the last drop of my blood has been spilled," in his first appearance since the violence began.
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Nichols Gets Life Sentence for Bombing
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
AP's TIM TALLEY - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, addressing a court for the first time, proclaimed his faith in God and asked victims of the blast for forgiveness Monday as a judge sentenced him to 161 consecutive life sentences.
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Iraq Issues Warrants for Chalabi, Nephew
Monday, August 9, 2004
AP's JAMIE TARABAY - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Iraq has issued arrest warrants for Ahmad Chalabi, a former Governing Council member with strong U.S. ties, on counterfeiting charges, and for his nephew Salem Chalabi _ head of the tribunal trying Saddam Hussein _ on murder charges, Iraq's chief investigating judge said Sunday.
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Two Albany, N.Y., Mosque Leaders Arrested
Friday, August 6, 2004
AP's TED BRIDIS - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Authorities arrested two leaders of a mosque in Albany, N.Y., early Thursday and charged them with aiding in a purported plot to buy a shoulder-fired grenade launcher to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat.
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Bush Calls for New Intelligence Director
Tuesday, August 3, 2004
AP's TERENCE HUNT - - Casper Star-Tribune
| President Bush urged creation of a national intelligence director Monday to coordinate the war on terrorism but without the sweeping powers for hiring, firing and spending at the CIA, FBI and other agencies as recommended by the Sept. 11 commission.
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U.S. Warns of Threat to Financial Icons
Monday, August 2, 2004 JENNIFER C. KERR - - Casper Star-Tribune
| The federal government warned Sunday of possible terrorist attacks against "iconic" financial institutions in New York City, Washington and Newark, N.J., saying a confluence of chilling intelligence in recent days pointed to a car or truck bomb.
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Bush, Kerry Scour Rust Belt for Support
Sunday, August 1, 2004
AP's DEB RIECHMANN - - Casper Star-Tribune
| With dueling economic messages, President Bush and rival John Kerry campaigned head-to-head in the Rust Belt Saturday, getting so close at one point that their bus caravans were rolling toward each other on a 35-mile stretch of Interstate 70.
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Pakistan Arrests Embassy Bombings Suspect
Friday, July 30, 2004
AP's PAUL HAVEN - - Casper Star-Tribune
| ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan has arrested a Tanzanian al-Qaida suspect wanted by the United States in the 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the interior minister said Friday. He said the suspect was cooperating and had given authorities "very valuable" information.
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Kennedy Says Bush Should Be Replaced
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
AP's Lolita C. Baldor - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic titan and patriarch of the country's most enduring political dynasty, told the party faithful Tuesday night that America can only reclaim its greatness by denying President Bush a second term.
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Gore Asks Voters to Weigh Bush Policies
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Casper Star-Tribune
| Al Gore, loser of the bitterly contested 2000 presidential election, accused President Bush of creating profound problems for Americans with ill-fated policies and rallied Democratic activists to "make sure that this time every vote is counted."
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Bombing Kills 3 Iraqis; Egyptian Set Free
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
AP's Ravi Nessman - - Casper Star-Tribune
| A suicide car bomb packed with explosives, mortars and rockets exploded Monday outside a U.S. base in the northern city of Mosul, killing three Iraqis _ including a child _ and injuring three U.S. soldiers.
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U.S. Forces, Iraqis Kill 15 Insurgents
Monday, July 26, 2004
AP's PAUL GARWOOD - - Casper Star-Tribune
| U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by heavy artillery and helicopters killed 15 insurgents in fighting Sunday that began in palm groves and ended in dusty streets of a city north of Baghdad as violence surged throughout the country.
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Cholesterol Drug Seen Shaking Up Market
Sunday, July 18, 2004
AP's THERESA AGOVINO - - Casper Star-Tribune
| The fight for market share in the world's largest drug category is about to intensify as a new cholesterol-lowering medicine called Vytorin joins the pack that includes Lipitor, Zocor and Crestor.
The introduction of Vytorin -- expected to win Food and Drug Administration approval later this month -- is likely to ignite a pricing and advertising battle.
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New Tech May Bring Cell Phones to Ships
Sunday, July 18, 2004
AP's JOHN PAIN - - Casper Star-Tribune
| The tranquility many passengers cherish on cruises may be shattered by the cacophony of ringing cell phones. A new service makes regular mobile phones work even when communications towers are miles of ocean away.
It's just the latest way technology is changing cruise vacations, which now offer Internet access, pay-per-view television and digital music libraries.
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Cheney returns for NCHS reunion
Sunday, July 18, 2004 TOM MORTON - - Casper Star-Tribune
| The pomp and circumstance surrounding commencement of the Natrona County High School class of 1959 couldn't compare to the security of its 45th reunion at the Parkway Plaza on Saturday.
The senior class president, now U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, rode to his reunion in a limousine flanked by Secret Service agents.
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OPEC to increase production
Friday, July 16, 2004
AP's BRUCE STANLEY - - Casper Star-Tribune
| With the price of oil stuck above $40 a barrel, OPEC agreed Thursday to raise its daily production target by 500,000 barrels, or 2 percent, to try to keep crude prices from lurching even higher.
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White House Proposes Lifting Logging Rule
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
AP's BOB FICK - - Casper Star-Tribune
| The Bush administration Monday proposed lifting a national rule that closed remote areas of national forests to logging, instead saying states should decide whether to keep a ban on road-building in those areas.
Environmentalists immediately criticized the change as the biggest timber industry giveaway in history.
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