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...chief are just a preview of what awaits George Bush when he joins more than 100 other world leaders this week for the culmination of the summit. The Brazilian press has already labeled the U.S. a "party pooper" and called Bush "Uncle Grubby." And many of the President's harshest critics in Rio will be fellow Americans. At the first day of the Open Speakers Forum, a meeting place for the 20,000 activists, scientists, spiritual leaders and other people on the periphery of the Earth Summit, environmentalist Sharon Rogers of Wright City, Mo., announced that she was circulating...
...economic problems confronted by the Peruvian poor are probably the harshest that any Latin American population has ever confronted. This was clearly expressed by the the United State Secretary of State at the Organization of American States meeting on Monday April 13: "No nation and no people face a more daunting, dangerous or terrible set of crises than those inherited by the new democratic government of Peru less than two years ago. No nation and no people need and deserve international solidarity and support more than the Peruvian nation and Peruvian people. They confront the deepest economic crisis of their...
...look far to find unfair coverage: on April 17 Ira Stoll wrote that 'many saw [Counter's letter] as inaccurate and insensitive to Jews," which implies to anyone who reads between the lines that every objective person say Counter's letter as inaccurate and insensitive. In fact, the harshest criticism given by any of the three non-Jewish minority student leaders interviewed elsewhere on the page is "It seems that a number of things could be taken offensively by the Jewish community...
...harshest critics are at the university level. During his term, Brown froze faculty salaries arguing that professors were compensated by what he called "psychic income." Several officials at the University of California system have criticized Brown's leadership, some arguing that he made the system worse...
...bulldozed are inhabited again. Tents and lean-tos dot the snowy slopes, shattered walls support makeshift plastic roofs, and open-air bazaars are conducting a brisk business in food, fuel and clothing. Many of the villages' new residents are doing their best to rebuild amid desperate hardship and the harshest winter in 40 years...