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...ruling, suggest that the day of congressional hearings starring criminal suspects is passing. Says House Republican leader Bob Michel: "Congress ought to suppress its interest in public hearings if you want people to go to jail." Presumably, legislators want to punish the guilty at least as much as they covet the publicity yielded by splashy scandal investigations...
Paul Newman, superstar, race-car driver and purveyor of his own name-brand salad dressing, has long avoided the big-time endorsement deals that many of his Hollywood peers covet. Too commercial, he was thought to feel. But last week word circulated that the star of Cool Hand Luke and Blaze had agreed to do a TV spot for American Express for a reported $2 million to $5 million. Meryl Streep, another holdout in the celebrity-endorsement sweepstakes, is also believed to be considering a deal with Amex, but corporate officials have refused to comment...
...matter what happens this week in Lausanne, the elephant will still be in some peril. Even if the ivory trade winds down, the elephant will face increasing encroachment from Africa's fast-growing human populations. African farmers or herdsmen trying to eke out a living covet the vast habitats set aside for animals and cannot understand why scarce financial resources go to protect elephants while people go hungry. To many Africans, the elephant is a five-ton nuisance that can trample a season's maize in seconds. As long as they feel that way, they will turn a blind...
Among other things, environmentalists fear that completion of the road will provide entree for Japanese trading companies that covet the Amazon's vast timber resources. Acre's governor, however, argues that the road is needed to end the state's isolation and claims that the state will not repeat the mistakes of Rondonia...
...atmosphere. "We will not accept tutelage," the President declared. "We will accept responsibility for the defense of our territory." Sarney reiterated his rejection of so-called debt-for-nature swaps, in which foreign debt is forgiven in exchange for conservation efforts, as just one more way for those who covet the Amazon to meddle in Brazil's affairs...