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Healy's plan is part of an effort to bring the city into compliance with the strict 1990 amendments to the national Clean Air Act. All cities in the Commonwealth will eventually have to meet these standards...
...spent too much time on foreign affairs, Bush has virtually ignored the issue. In pleading poverty ("There isn't a lot of money around . . . I don't have a blank check") and refusing to heed Richard Nixon's warnings about chaos and a return to dictatorship in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Bush has offered Clinton a window of opportunity. (If it closes, if Bush jumps out with his own ideas for C.I.S. assistance before Clinton can, the candidate will shift his emphasis...
Gloom descended as leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States ended their summit meeting in Kiev last week without managing to defuse a situation that threatens the already fragile structure of the nascent organization: the growing rancor between Russia and Ukraine...
Allison said that the U.S. should not providemerely financial support to the Commonwealth...
Although Nagorno-Karabakh is small, the implications of the violence are large. Officials from other republics regard the outcome as a test for the future prospects of the patchwork Commonwealth of Independent States. Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, warns that the clash may "create a precedent for uncontrolled development of conflicts within the C.I.S." Late last week Azerbaijani President Ayaz Mutalibov resigned under criticism for mishandling the crisis. Meanwhile, Russian President Boris Yeltsin called upon the two republics to "show political will and wisdom and start a dialogue." But with the guns sounding so loudly, it is hard to imagine...