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...administration's best legal brains have eschewed conventional wisdom, which holds any effort to start work on deploying a new missile defense system as a violation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. Instead, they reportedly argue that the U.S. can begin clearing the system's proposed site on the Alaskan island of Shemya, and even pour its concrete foundations, without technically violating the agreement. But there is no court that umpires adherence to arms-control treaties, and Clinton's legal team is extremely unlikely to convince Russia's President Vladimir Putin that Washington isn't fouling...
...violating the treaty. But though slick lawyering may give Clinton the opportunity to punt the issue of whether to scrap the ABM treaty into the next presidency, the Russians watch CNN, too - and they know that the concrete President Clinton would order poured on a frostbitten Alaskan island isn't for a barbecue pit. He may be better off whispering to Putin what some of his experts are quietly telling him - that the system can't work...
...rogue states," based on a congressional commission's assessment that North Korea could be in a position to target the U.S. with a long-range missile by then. To meet the deadline, however, the U.S. has to start work next spring on an advanced radar site on the Alaskan island of Shemya, where fearsome temperatures make construction work possible only during the summer months. But as soon as first concrete is poured on the site, Washington will be in violation of the 1972 ABM treaty severely limiting the extent of missile defense deployed by Washington and Moscow. Clinton wants...
...inexhaustibly provide food, dilute endless pollution and accept unlimited trash. In 1996 the U.S. passed the Sustainable Fisheries Act, which mandates rules against overfishing--a recognition that protecting sea life is good business. Some fish, such as striped bass and redfish, are recovering because of catch limits. Alaskan, Falkland, Australian and New Zealand longline boats are taking care not to kill albatrosses. Turtles are being saved by trapdoors in shrimp nets...
Whether climbing Alaskan glaciers or guiding Teddy Roosevelt through Yosemite National Park, left, Scottish-born John Muir saw wilderness as something quasi-spiritual, where "tired, nerve-shaken, overcivilized people" could find renewal. As a nature writer and the Sierra Club's founding president, he argued eloquently for preservation, as when he battled to save Yosemite's beautiful Hetch Hetchy Valley--you might "as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches," he fumed. Muir lost, yet his words still echo with each new threat to wild places...