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...respectability to the Cuban Comandante. At the same time, the regime will seek to replenish the threadbare rhetoric of the revolution by emphasizing the moral link between Christian and socialist ideas. A papal critique of unbridled capitalism is anticipated by the socialist government. Officials hope the reception they accord the Pope will accelerate the rapprochement between religious and secular segments of society...
Statements from U.S. corporations implying that they cannot possibly comply with the Kyoto agreement are laughable given the response of foreign industrial giants such as Honda and Toyota, already worlds ahead in clean, energy-efficient technology. The Kyoto accord represents recognition by forward-thinking people that the economics of environmental sustainability are, in the long run, the best ones: best for the environment and, yes, best for the people. But let the political misinformation machine roll on! NICK PORCH Boulder, Colo...
...worked. The Japanese caved, and the conference was on its way to an accord that was as unexpected as it is historic. Almost no one going into the meeting was optimistic about its outcome. There wasn't much disagreement about the basic problem: it's now clear that carbon dioxide and other gases generated by human agriculture and industry are trapping the sun's heat. And while nobody knows for certain what the consequences will be, the worst-case scenarios envisioned by scientists include dangerously rising seas, more powerful storms, drastically altered weather patterns and even outbreaks of tropical diseases...
Beyond that, the Kyoto accord doesn't require developing countries like China and India--themselves major polluters--to reduce their emissions at all. To complicate matters further, the treaty will not take effect until it has been ratified--and in the U.S., Senate Republicans have made it clear that that they have no intention of letting that happen. Even if they did, Congress would then have to approve tax incentives and other costly measures to bring the U.S. into compliance. And that would require the even more conservative House to go along...
...headed the commission until last summer and is now Sweden's ambassador to the U.S. On June 22, 1996, Ekeus and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz signed an agreement guaranteeing that U.N. inspectors would have "immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access" to all sites they wanted to inspect. The accord does contain a paragraph that calls for respecting Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity, but Ekeus says this was only a repetition of formal language in the 1991 truce agreement...