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In these and other areas, America must play a leading role. Not only is the U.S., as a wealthy, technologically advanced nation, in a position to help others achieve sustainable development; the country also has a moral responsibility to do so. After all, the U.S. consumes a disproportionate amount of...
Several weeks earlier, TIME had convened a group of 14 scientists and policymakers for an all-day conference on the environmental crisis. The meeting, held in Alexandria, Va., and organized by Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, was a follow-up to a 1988 ecological symposium that led to TIME's selection...
Gorbachev also contends that the future of well-managed reform depends on the party continuing to run the show, an argument that would surely bring a smile to the face of just deposed East German party leader Egon Krenz. "Preserving the vanguard role for the party, from our point of...
Meanwhile, the national Communist Party is under attack from within. Last month the leaders of Leningrad's Communist Party arranged an unprecedented demonstration to criticize Moscow for not defending the party against glasnost-inspired attacks. If this outburst reflects apparatchik sentiment, legalizing competitive groups would arouse not only outrage but...
No evidence uncovered so far in East Germany indicates plundering on a scale to rival world-class pillagers of national treasuries like the Marcos family of the Philippines or the Pahlavis of Iran. Honecker, along with other top party officials, lived a decidedly bourgeois life inside the walled luxury compound...