World IN BRIEF : CHILE : U.S. Magnate Delays Creating Huge Park

A U.S. magnate who owns two vast tracts of rain forest in southern Chile says he has suspended plans to create a huge nature park after the government prevented him from buying a key strip connecting his land. Douglas Tompkins told the newspaper La Segunda that he has delayed indefinitely plans to transfer more than 660,000 acres of virgin forest to a charitable foundation after the government’s decision two weeks ago to buy land that he had been negotiating to acquire. Chilean nationalists had accuse Tompkins of trying to cut the narrow country in half.