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Delegates at the United Nations Population Conference ended the confab by unanimously approving a 20-year plan to curb birth rates -- sort of. The lone dissenter, the Vatican's delegate, actually voted for the plan too, but Archbishop Renato Martino said he could not endorse parts of the plan that recognized "abortion as a dimension of population policy and primary health care." Says TIME Senior Writer Eugene Linden in Cairo: "Nobody here understands the Vatican's vote. There's no precedent for it." So why did the Holy See have a change of heart? "The anger and the ridicule among...
Delegates at the U.N.'s population conference hammered out a plan that, if successful, will help control birth rates. But the arguing at this highly contentious gathering isn't over just yet; a vote on the document is expected tomorrow. The so-called "Program of Action" seeks to curb population by promoting economic development and educating women. Delegates today overcame the final sticking point in favor of Western countries by ruling that migrants did not have automatic rights to reunite with their families. The Vatican is expected to continue its opposition because the plan does not denounce abortion; it leaves...
Cairo is also buffeted by all the political, cultural and religious forces that tend to interfere with effective birth-control programs. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has worked hard, with some success, to curb the country's growth rate, and the government is proud to be hosting a conference expected to attract up to 20,000 participants, including several heads of $ state. Egypt's fundamentalist Muslim sheiks take a different view, however, drawing cheers from their followers when they denounce the meeting as a "Zionist and imperialist assault against Islam...
...rate of a little over 2 percent, says Anirvan Banerji, research economist at The Center for International Business Cycle Research at Columbia University. Banerji told TIME Daily he's looked at seven indicators and they've been up for the last ten months. The Federal Reserve usually moves to curb the inflation rate by raising interest rates...
Imagine, then, if President Clinton came out with a new policy ordering Coast Guard cutters to machine gun all refugees attempting to enter by boat. Or Perot advocated a limited thermonuclear reprisal against Japan in order to curb the trade deficit? Certainly some Americans would whistle, catcall and respond with a hearty "Hell, yeah!" Most would simply laugh. Statements like those above would indelibly brand someone a lunatic not worth a second look in the American political scene...