Salazar said more study is needed before finalizing the withdrawal of the million acres of land around the Grand Canyon.

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The Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for Orkney Tavish Scott backed Elaine Murray's calls for a moratorium and socioeconomic study into the impact of the withdrawal of RET to hauliers and said there were "serious concerns from hauliers and in the islands" about the plans.

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It will be his response not just to last month's Iraq Study Group report, which advocated the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq by early next year, but also to the evident truth that the current plan is not working.

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