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...movement seems in desperate need of a champion, the most likely candidates have gone AWOL. Vice President Al Gore, the author of Earth in the Balance, has strayed to other issues as he tries to keep up with Hillary and the pack of FOBs in the hyperactive Clinton Administration. Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland devoted much of the 1980s to helping develop a global ecological agenda, but her reputation has plummeted since Norway resumed commercial whaling in defiance of an international...
...poured into Norway's embassy in Washington. Environmental groups have called on consumers to boycott the country's exports and on travelers to stay away from Norway, especially during next year's Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. German and British companies have canceled several million dollars' worth of contracts for Norwegian food. And the U.S. Commerce Department will decide within a week or two whether Norway's actions make it potentially subject to trade restrictions on the more than $1 billion of Norwegian products exported to the U.S. every year...
...Japan will abide by the rules for now, but has lobbied the IWC to allow limited whaling. All three nations argue that the current policy is governed by emotion, not rational science. They contend that a careful harvest of relatively plentiful species like the minke is harmless. Says Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland: "We cannot allow uninformed sentiment to decide on the controlled use of our natural resources...
...whales -- or even what that means -- does not divide into neat ideological camps. Many whalers agree that some species need saving; many environmentalists -- including Brundtland, considered one of the world's most conservation-conscious leaders -- think that some carefully regulated whaling is acceptable. Argues Heidi Sorensen, head of the Norwegian environmental organization Nature and Youth: "We love the minke whale -- in the same way that we love the reindeer and the elk. These are animals that are not threatened with extinction and that we hunt...
...venerable way of life. Says Japan's Shimasaburo Hamai, 69, retired after 45 years as a harpooner in a land where monuments were once dedicated to the souls of hunted whales: "I want our whaling tradition to be passed on to the coming generation." Nordin Olafsson, master of the Norwegian whaling vessel Nybraena, calls the hunt "a vital part of our culture. It is hardly a major part of the national budget -- but for those fishermen who need it, it is a crucial source of income...