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...hard to foresee. Environmental opposition scuttled a similar plan of Climos' chief rival, another California company, Planktos. International law on the matter is murky. In May, the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity called for a moratorium on everything but "small" experiments "in coastal waters." Climos chief science officer Margaret Leinen concedes that even if the idea works, it won't remotely deal with all the planet's excess carbon. But she says it doesn't have to. "We're not thinking of this as solving the problem," she says. "We're looking at this as one of a whole portfolio...
...insist that they are not anti-American. "The U.S. soldiers here don't understand that we are not against them personally," insists one activist. "We are against their missiles. We are against the militarization they represent. But we mean none of this as a personal attack." Says Jo Leinen, head of Federal Citizens' Initiatives Association, a nationwide umbrella group involved in the protests: "[Our movement] is part of a German emancipation. There was a war, we were occupied, and we want to liberate ourselves. Now our campaign is against missiles. There is a strong sense that the American...
...that sizable majority of Europeans already disposed to be pro-American, the President conveyed reassurance that the U.S. remains committed to the NATO alliance and is genuinely seeking peace and arms reduction in negotiations with the Soviets. But Reagan encountered much skepticism from the burgeoning European "peace" movement; Josef Leinen, one of the organizers of an antinuclear rally in Bonn, challenged the President to prove that he was not merely mouthing "empty disarmament slogans." In face-to-face discussions with European political leaders, Reagan reinforced personal rapport but gained little more agreement on policy than had existed before he left...
...relaxed. Said retired Dutch General M.H. von Meyenfeldt, who addressed the rally: "There are an awful lot of people out there who are here for the sun." Many speakers referred to Reagan's Bundestag remarks and challenged the President to prove that he is really ready, in Organizer Leinen's words, "to begin a crusade for peace and disarmament...
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