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...local government will finance those expenses on the back of the environment by opening Kamchatka's rich mineral reserves to development. David Gordon of the Pacific Environment Resources Center, a California-based environmental group that has focused its efforts on threats to Siberia, notes that even now an American-Russian joint venture is preparing to mine gold in an area near two salmon rivers that was once intended to be part of a reserve. He fears that the way in which the project is being rammed through--without proper environmental review--sets a troubling precedent. Kamchatka has more than...
...possible futures, one optimistic, the other apocalyptic, loom for the survival of science in the now uncertain and uneasy former Soviet Union, members of a joint American-Russian workshop said at a weekend conference...
...however, the court is not conducting a witch-hunt. William Green Miller, president of the Committee on American-Russian Relations, has attended the proceedings and is convinced that the aim "is not to establish the culpability of individuals but the illegitimacy of the old system...
Both sets of events might be looked upon as debits in what one top American official calls the "double-entry bookkeeping" that governs U.S.-Soviet relations. For a balanced view of the true state of American-Russian affairs, both sides of the ledger must be examined. In one column are the credits: the nonproliferation treaty, the new cultural agreement, the Moscow-New York air flights, and the decision to hold disarmament talks. In the other column are considerable debits: Berlin, the Middle East, Cuba, Russian backing of North Viet Nam-and now Soviet threats to Czechoslovakia...
MEMOIRS: 1925-1950, by George F. Kennan. A leading expert in American-Russian relations, the former diplomat details his career as student and shaper of U.S. foreign policy...