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Woods, as well as other conservative students, cited as an example last year's graduation speaker and honorary degree recipient, Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, an abortion-rights advocate...
...FIRST WORLD LEADERS TO SEEK AN AUDIENCE with Vice President Albert Gore is, naturally enough, Norway's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, who headed the World Commission on Environment and Development. Brundtland's mission, however, could not be more environmentally incorrect. She wants her buddy from the Earth Summit in Rio to promise that the U.S. won't take punitive economic measures against Norway, which plans to defy an international moratorium on whaling...
...Brundtland's humiliating mission is like an environmental version of the ghost of Christmas future: four years from now the Vice President may find himself in a similarly uncomfortable position, explaining to his environmental supporters why he failed to deliver on commitments made during the campaign. Just as ideologues during 12 years of Republican Administrations were thwarted by the courts and Congress from unilaterally rolling back environmental protection, Brundtland's situation illustrates how the workings of a modern democracy can also dampen the ambitions of true believers occupying the highest positions of power...
...Brundtland got into her fix because she needed the political support of fishermen in northern communities. Faced with declining catches, the fishermen look hungrily at Minke whales. To keep this group in her fragile coalition, Brundtland has blithely forgotten many of her strongly held convictions...
Internationally, the Administration can reassert American efforts to put some substance into the neutered agreements that came out of last June's Earth Summit. Gore has the opportunity to signal determination if he meets with Brundtland. If he were feeling sadistic he might quote from her Harvard commencement address last June, in which she spoke of the vital importance of international agreements, or recite the words of her report, Our Common Future, which cites American economic sanctions as a means of policing agreements on marine conservation. And he might pray that four years later, a successor will not appear...