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Perhaps the greenest of nations is Germany, where commercial banks will grant low-interest loans for pro-environment projects and hotels urge guests to forgo daily towel changes to save water and energy. Environment Minister Klaus Topfer has ordered the phaseout of cfcs by next year -- two years earlier than most other countries -- and called for a 25% to 30% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2010. The government is investing heavily, having spent $90 million since 1974 on development of recyclable, high-efficiency batteries for electric cars and planning annual outlays of $182 million on solar-wind- and wave...
Bush's very public dithering over whether to make the Rio trip only underscores his image as indecisive. Bush wants to go but is hemmed in by conservatives who believe that U.S. participation in such global parleys undercuts American power. Buchanan called on Bush to forgo the Rio meeting and instead "send a telegram" to the conferees explaining that the U.S. would not "yield one iota of our sovereignty to these global parasites...
...portraying the heroic British effort in World War II. The film features a model family in which the father, mother and son make their respective contributions to the war effort. Director William Wyler simultaneously develops two themes: the devastation of the war and the reluctance of the British to forgo their everyday lives. The engrossing melodrama brings home the message of the effects of the war on the homefront...
...terminated the Midgetman missile program, suspended work on the MX and halted production of the B-2 Stealth bomber and the advanced cruise missile. A day later, Russian President Boris Yeltsin responded by stopping production of two long-range bombers and cruise missiles and called on both sides to forgo targeting each other...
...expressions of principle" go, the one reached last week by North and South Korea was rich with promise. Under the six-point declaration, which follows the reconciliation accord signed Dec. 13 by the longtime rivals, they agreed to forgo the manufacture, testing and use of nuclear weapons. To ensure a denuclearized peninsula, each side pledged to allow inspection tours of suspected atomic sites...