The Nation - News from Nov. 3, 1988

President Reagan exercised pocket vetoes on a bill designating 1.43 million acres of Forest Service land in Montana as wilderness area and on a measure establishing a corporation to provide development capital to Indian businesses, the White House announced. By exercising the pocket vetoes after Congress has adjourned for the year, there is no chance of overrides. In a statement concerning the Montana wilderness bill, Reagan said: “My Administration’s national forest system land and resource management plans for Montana already strike the appropriate balance among competing economic, environmental and cultural interests in the national forests of Montana.”