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...international treaty to address global warming. Finally on Thursday, even as the President was busy reacting to the crisis in Panama, the White House sent a special cable to the U.S. delegation attending a U.N.-sponsored environment meeting in Geneva. The cable, signed by chief of staff John Sununu, directed the American representatives to invite the other participating nations to a global-warming workshop in Washington this fall. Said Sununu in the message: "The scope and importance of this issue are so great that it is essential for the U.S. to exercise a leadership role...
...tarnished his leadership credentials. Bush failed to grasp the symbolic importance of dealing personally with a major environmental disaster. When an Exxon tanker dumped 11 million gal. of oil into Prince William Sound, Bush remained in Washington instead of touring the scene of the accident. Even his old friend John Chafee, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, says, "That was unfortunate, a missed opportunity." Despite the lack of personal involvement, however, Bush has sent ships and personnel from the Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard to help in the cleanup operation...
...Bush to back, among other things, tough new limits on smokestack emissions of sulfur dioxide, a major cause of acid rain. But that could cause a political backlash in states that produce high-sulfur coal, such as Illinois and Pennsylvania. "It's decision- making time for George Bush," says John Adams, head of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Unless he acts credibly, his environmental image is in danger of unraveling...
Covering the bloody eruption in Panama's streets last week, Central America bureau chief John Moody had a powerful sense of deja vu. He had spent ten weeks in Panama last year reporting on the riots that accompanied the Reagan Administration's efforts to bring down the country's dictator, General Manuel Antonio Noriega. On both occasions, Moody felt a shiver of physical danger. Last year Moody was chased by several of Noriega's riot police, called the Dobermans. "When they finally cornered me, I figured my time had come," he recalls. "I was more than a bit surprised when...
...conflicting advice it is getting, the Fed may be steering an astute political course. "Politicians know that it's better to have a slowdown now than during the 1990 election," says John Makin, director of fiscal-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. And while the experts may agree on little else, most say the economy will remain in precarious health until Congress and the White House devise a realistic plan to cut the budget deficit. That will take some doing. When a perplexed Pharaoh awoke from his dream-filled sleep, Joseph advised the ruler to store food...