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When it is noted that the U.S. imports very little oil from the region, advocates of intervention respond that Western Europe and Japan depend on Gulf oil. The United States is allegedly acting to protect these economies by intervening. France and Germany, however, wish to negotiate with Iraq if the U.S. will not, offering to discuss the Palestinian issue of Iraq withdraws from Kuwait. Japan has offered Iraq aid in exchange for withdrawal...
Obviously, the main priority of these countries is to avert a war that would threaten the resources on which their economies depend...
...suggestion that ((electromagnetic fields)) present in the environment induce or promote cancer," the Air Force concludes. "It is astonishing that the EPA would lend its imprimatur on this report." The Pentagon's concern is understandable. There is hardly a unit of the modern military that does not depend on the heavy use of some kind of electronic ! equipment, from huge ground-based radar towers to the defense systems built into every warship and plane...
Such visions, however, depend both on political stability and a complete overhaul of the Soviet system. With that in mind, Bush proposed that the Soviet Union be granted "special association" status in the IMF and the World Bank. Those organizations would help integrate the U.S.S.R. into the world economy by dispatching experts on the banking system, stock markets, currency exchange, transportation and energy. Eventually the Soviets could be eligible for full membership in the international bodies...
...proceeding, as many of the local people claim, just a show for the international media? No, argues Brazilian Environment Secretary Jose Lutzenberger, who sees the trial as a clear demonstration that his country will protect the rain forest, along with the rubber tappers (seringueiros) and Indians who depend upon the trees for their livelihood. "Chico Mendes did not die in vain," he says. "We must and will put a stop to ecological crimes...