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Question: What do 52 million trees in Guatemala have to do with one coal- burning power plant in Uncasville, Conn.? Answer: they form a healthy environmental equation. That is the hope of Virginia-based Applied Energy Services, a builder and operator of power plants in Texas, Pennsylvania and California. Like any other coal-fired generator, the 180-megawatt plant now under construction in Uncasville will spew carbon dioxide, the chief culprit ! in the globe-warming greenhouse effect. But acting on a recommendation from the World Resources Institute, a Washington environmental-policy research center, AES has voluntarily donated $2 million...
Dukakis' multilateral outlook is most evident regarding Latin America. He often cites the summer of 1954, when he was living with a family in Peru at the time the CIA overthrew the left-leaning elected government of Guatemala. It was part of a pattern, he says. "Every time we intervened, we did so in the name of democracy. And almost without exception, the legacy of our intervention has been tyranny." The reasons: "We put ourselves above the law. We tried to go it alone. We tried to impose our views, instead of helping to build a democratic tradition...
...site of the meeting ensured that at the least Guatemala, as the host country, would back the negotiating strategy...
...Guatemala City, the foreign ministers of the five nations held preliminary meetings but were unable to reach a consensus. Although ordinary procedures called for the ministers and the presidents to meet all together, Arias arranged for the five leaders to meet alone...
Hakim says that if one looks at the Arias plan in literal terms--putting aside the concerns about Nicaragua's civil war that inspired it--then it fares less well. Guatemala, Honduras and El Salavador all currently have internal strife or repressive regimes, he says...