Great lead!  I wish I could hear what else Bill has to say, but I probably
won't be able to be there.  Will he have a text that might be published on
line or in the Iowa Sierran later?

Bill Witt


> Central Iowa Sierra Program:
> Wednesday, May 19, 7:30 p.m.
>
> Bill Leonard
> "Sisyphus Had It Easy"
>
>  Environmentalists enter  the political fray burdened by  the greatest
> handicap that the game can impose. There is no escaping the handicap, no
> appeal, no way to rewrite the rules to get an even break. No other cause
> faces a handicap of similar magnitude. But if the activists even think of
> giving up, they will  have broken faith with the future.
>
>  Bill Leonard worked as reporter and/or editor on newspapers in Nebraska,
> Kansas and South Dakota before coming to Iowa. He retired three years ago
> after 30 years on the editorial staff of the Des Moines Register. In the
> course of writing more than 10,000 editorials, he changed exactly one
> mind.
> His own.
>
> Central Iowa Sierra programs are held at 7:30 p.m. at Grace United
> Methodist
> Church, 37th and Cottage Grove in Des Moines.
>
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