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...continents. But in part because acid rain is an insidious form of air pollution that is carried long distances before falling as rain and snow, there has been little cooperation between those who create the problem and those who suffer its consequences. That is changing. At a meeting in Ottawa last week, representatives of Canada and nine European nations* signed an agreement to reduce the sulfur dioxide that spews forth from industrial plants, a major cause of acid rain, by at least 30% before 1993. The "30% club," as the group was quickly dubbed, hopes to pressure other nations, principally...
...past month, reporters have been poking around Hart's old home town of Ottawa, Kans. Inevitably, perhaps, the trail has led to Hart's mother, who died in 1972. Nina Hartpence is portrayed by neighbors and relatives as strict and domineering. "We always had trouble getting Gary to come out and play," a childhood friend, Duane Hoobing, was quoted as saying in the Wall Street Journal last week. "He was lonely lots of times. His mother never let him get too involved with other kids." A devout member of the Church of the Nazarene, Mrs. Hartpence enforced...
When Hart left Ottawa to go to Oklahoma's Bethany Nazarene College at the age of 18, he was shy, serious and determined to leave the small-town boy behind. Over the years, he changed his name from Hartpence to Hart, changed his age to make himself a year younger, changed his signature, became a movie buff and began drinking margaritas (in moderation). His circle of friends broadened from Duane Hoobing to Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine. An antiwar activist in the late '60s, he obtained a commission in the Naval Reserve...
...changes in Hart's life, he remains in many ways just as reserved, self-contained and ambitious as he was when he left Ottawa 30 years ago. He prefers reading or modeling clay birds (eagles, mostly) in his office to jollying up his colleagues in the Senate cloakroom. On the stump "he's miserable at working crowds," says Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, a friend and supporter. Yet Hart this winter has worked hard to overcome his shyness and to press flesh cheerfully. "At times he is shy and withdrawn. But he has a great sense of humor," says...
Gary Hart rose out of the dusty streets of Ottawa, Kans., survived the austerities of Yale's Divinity and Law schools, became a U.S. Senator, and is now a political legend-in-the-making, stalking the Mondale "juggernaut." When Hart mounts the campaign pulpit, he thunders often about a discouraged and crumbling America...