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| | FSCC State News Services: 1970s: a Decade of Major Advances for Conservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | At the presentation, my wife, Bonnie, and I met Governor Reubin Askew and his wife, Donna Lou, for the first time and had an opportunity to talk to them before the skits that lampooned state officials. |
 | | Governor Askew strongly opposed the mining, and in a statement during a Bureau of Land Management hearing declared: "Let the people's forest alone, and don't degrade it with draglines and dikes and slimes and slurries." With the help of U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles, he eventually convinced then-Secretary of Interior James Watt. |
 | | In 1974, Governor Reubin Askew and the Cabinet met non-stop for 14 hours--from 11:00 a.m. |
| www.myflorida.com /fdi/fscc/news/state/ken2.htm (1475 words) |
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