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NAFTA, which would create a market of 360 million consumers, still does not have a clear presidential imprint. The Clinton Administration, even at this late hour, has not advanced with clear, unswerving support for the accord. NAFTA's opponents are smelling blood, the kind that gushes from sacrificial victims on the altar of political expediency...
...animals. The experience in the Northwest has taught policy planners to focus not on individual species but on entire ecosystems. And a determination to avoid the protracted court battles that deadlocked the owls-loggers dispute has spurred the Administration to bring together industries, environmental groups and local governments. An accord to protect the Southern California breeding grounds of the endangered gnatcatcher was reached in March by local developers, environmentalists and the state government. One month later, the Fish and Wildlife Service entered into an unprecedented arrangement with Georgia-Pacific Corp., which agreed to conserve the habitat of the endangered...
...ruling that may kill chances for congressional passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, U.S. District Judge Charles Richey ruled that the accord cannot be submitted to Congress until the government prepares an environmental impact statement on such matters as whether increased manufacturing on the U.S. border with Mexico might lead to increased pollution. The delay will give opponents more time to organize and push the controversial vote into a congressional election year. "My fear is that NAFTA is finished unless this ruling is overturned," fretted Missouri Senator John Danforth...
Porter rejected the avant-gardist piety that the empirically painted figure or landscape was dead. It simply didn't accord with his convictions about how art relates to experience and conveys its "density," a favorite word. Nowhere does his work show a sign of the metaphysical yearnings of the New York school, still less its primitivism. Porter's was very much a modernist vision, but classically so; its main source was Paris, and its exemplars were the great Intimists Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. From them, as Agee notes in his catalog essay, Porter learned to "paint what you know...
...meticulously organized and loves making lists. The bombings compensate for his need to express his aggression. "There are a variety of theories we're following, but the big question is the motive," Ahlerich says. "It's not known." No one, though, believes he will stop on his own accord...