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Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and President Ronald Reagan sang and swapped jokes about their Irish heritage on St. Patrick's Day three years ago at the "Shamrock Summit" in Quebec City, but their friendship has soured since then. Last week it bottomed out over the unresolved problem of acid rain. Much of the pollution that falls on Canada is caused by the burning of coal and other fuels by U.S. industries. In a speech in New York City, Mulroney angrily declared, "It's ruining our lakes, it's killing our rivers, it's ruining our forests...
Under strong domestic pressure to extract a commitment from the U.S. to / decrease acid rain, Mulroney lashed out at the Reagan Administration's wait- and-study attitude. "Friendship has inescapable costs," said he. "One of them is bearing whatever burdens are required to avoid polluting your neighbor's property." Although the two leaders will hold another summit later this month, Mulroney acknowledged that he must wait for Reagan's successor to see any results...
...defending Meese on the basis of friendship, the President implied that his personal relationship with the Attorney General took precedence over the integrity and effectiveness of the Justice Department. Other Republicans were more concerned. Some members of Reagan's White House staff have quietly supported the pressure on Meese to step aside. Instead of criticizing the abrupt departure of Weld and Burns, they praised it, in the words of one adviser, as an "act of principle...
...program gets students to make an investment of themselves, so that they're not just helping another Third World country, says Wills, a Dartmouth graduate. "What they get is the friendship with these people. It's not just grime and sweat," he says. "That's as simple as that...
...many of the programs direct beneficiaries. One child recently wrote a letter to Wills--in Spanish--in which he says, "Ted, you are more than a friend to me because you taught me many things and how to face everything. Thank you for your friendship Ted, it's the best thing we all have...