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...next case was worse. June Weinstock, 52, a journalist and environmentalist from Fairbanks, Alaska, had innocently caressed a boy's head on March 29 after taking photographs of children at a market in the northeastern town of San Cristobal Verapaz. Suddenly, a peasant woman shouted that her son had disappeared. A crowd gathered and began to beat Weinstock. Moments later when the missing boy reappeared, the mother tried to stop the attack. But the mob was egged on, according to a government investigator, by state road workers who threatened to burn Weinstock alive. She was stripped, stoned, stabbed repeatedly, then...
...months to slow the tiger trade. Since cites has no enforcement powers of its own, only individual member nations can make the decision to impose trade sanctions. A key player to watch is the U.S., largely because of the strong stand taken by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. An ardent environmentalist, he attended the Brussels meeting in September and played a major role in the effort to put pressure on China and Taiwan...
...looking for someone who understands oppression. Loves abortion rights rallies, environmentalist conferences, multicultural vegetarian cuisine. Seeks nonjudgmental person of any race, gender, age. Letters appreciated but please, no photos--they reinforce the beauty myth...
Romans split between the Democratic Party of the Left, which backed Francesco Rutelli, 39, a Green candidate who ran on an environmentalist platform promising to bring pedestrian zones and pollution controls to the decaying capital, and the baby-faced leader of the neofascist Italian Social Movement, Gianfranco Fini, 41. He contended his party best responds to public demands for law and order, immigration controls and restoration of the death penalty. The top two vote getters in Naples, the city that has come to symbolize southern Italy's chronic poverty and lawlessness, were Antonio Bassolino, a 46-year-old veteran communist...
...farm fields and abandoned aircraft hangers from Hamburg to Augsburg. Much more has been shipped abroad, some of it as far away as Indonesia, helping Germany become the globe's biggest exporter of trash. "This system has made us world-class litterbugs," says Norbert Barth, a spokesman for the environmentalist Greens party. "It is a waste-export system, not a waste-recycling system...