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The sunny garden city of Welkom is having trouble living up to its name. Situated in the Orange Free State gold-mining belt, the town of 54,000 whites and 150,000 blacks had long managed to keep a relatively peaceful if wary distance from the murderous political events that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The Wind Rises in Welkom | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

Some of the bafflement arises from a curious inability to come to terms with a failed policy, with America's greatest military defeat. But it is also due to the continuing attitude of the U.S. Government. Fifteen years after U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin slipped away in the predawn darkness of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam 15 Years Later | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

. In Portland, Ore., the organizing committee of Earth Day is cosponsoring local festivities with "primary resource extractors" such as timber and mining companies. In return for the companies' sponsorship, the committee has agreed to soft-pedal the environmental issue most important to the Pacific Northwest--resource extraction. In a final...

Author: By Julie E. Peters, | Title: The Selling of the Planet, 1990 | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

The woman who transformed Love Canal into an international symbol of the dangers of toxic waste has become a role model for a generation of homemaking ecocrusaders. With part of the $30,000 that New York State paid for her home, she packed her children and her belongings into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Earth Day Defenders of the Planet | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

The value of these individual actions is abundantly clear. Making newsprint from recycled newspapers uses half the water and energy and causes 74 percent less air pollution than making it from pulp wood. Making glass from recycled bottles reduces energy consumption by nearly half, water consumption by half, air pollution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Just for Tree Huggers | 4/21/1990 | See Source »

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