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Though its record on the environment has been spotty so far, the Bush Administration last week took the lead in a major conservation issue by imposing a ban on ivory imports into the U.S. The move came just four days after a consortium of conservation groups, including the World Wildlife Fund and Wildlife Conservation International, called for that kind of action, and it made the U.S. the first nation to forbid imports of both raw and finished ivory. The ban, says Bohlen, "sends a very clear message to the ivory poachers that the game is over...
...past, African nations have resisted an ivory ban, but increasingly they realize that the decimation of the elephant herds poses a serious threat to their tourist business. Last month Tanzania and seven other African countries called for an amendment to the 102-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species that would make the ivory trade illegal worldwide. The amendment is expected to be approved at an October meeting in Geneva and to go into effect next January. But between now and then, conservationists contend, poachers may go on a rampage, killing elephants wholesale, so nations should unilaterally forbid imports...
Since the government lifted a ban on its publication on Sept. 19, 1987, La Prensa has run exposes of government corruption and inefficiency, reported the existence of an underground prison for political detainees, and claimed that opponents of the regime have been executed and buried at night. To Sandinista charges that such stories lack substantiation and that she is a tool of the government's enemies, she replies, "If it weren't for La Prensa and the Chamorros, those boys who call themselves our comandantes would still be hiding in the mountains...
...grab, with elected officials trying to hide behind the judges and bureaucrats who would have received comparable raises and who are not in such bad odor with the public. But a reasonable pay raise keyed to automatic cost of living increases -- in exchange for a total loophole-proof ban on honorariums, gifts and free trips -- looks like a bargain when put up against, say, the average $14 billion annual cost of the S & L bailout. Some degree of public financing of campaigns might also help cut the umbilical cord between Congress and special interests, but last year campaign-reform efforts...
Some have criticized Bush for wavering on a ban of semni-automatic weapons. Bush indeed banned the imports of semi-automatic weapons, and, while he has not followed suit on domestic production, his action set a standard which the rest of the nation has begun to follow. The California legislature has since passed a bill banning such weapons; 22 states have established waiting periods and background checks for potential gun buyers Soft on guns? Hardly, and certainly better than furloughs...