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From the reaction in the environmental community last week, one would have thought Bill Clinton was about to outlaw offshore oil drilling. In fact, all he wants to change is the way the government buys its stationery, all $20 billion of it. The President plans this week to order federal agencies to purchase only paper with at least 20% of the content made from recycled trash by 1994. He wants the recycled content to be 30% by 1998. Allen Hershkowitz, recycling chief of the Natural Resources Defense Council, hails the move as "the most important decision in recycling history...
...full-page ad that ran in yesterday's New York Times, the Animal Welfare Institute dubbed Brundtland "the architect of Norway's outlaw whaling policy" and called for President Clinton to impose strict economic sanctions on Norway...
Despite the International Whaling Commission's recent 18-6 vote to outlaw commercial whaling, Norway's commercial and pirate fishers have since continued to hunt...
...governments are selling out to the Zionist enemy and its prime backer, the U.S. But those governments will be able to reply convincingly that the fundamentalists are being more Palestinian than Arafat; any deal good enough for the P.L.O. should be good enough for the rest. Fundamentalist Iran and outlaw Iraq doubtless will do everything they can to destroy the budding peace, but that could just drive them further into isolation...
...Managua headquarters of the conservative National Opposition Union (U.N.O.). Seizing 34 people including Vice President Virgilio Godoy Reyes, they demanded the release of the El Zungano hostages and U.S. war reparations of $17 billion. For six days, Nicaraguans feared the worst as mediators sought a compromise between the outlaw bands. Finally, both sides agreed to free all hostages, and the government and former contras signed an eight-point plan aimed at alleviating tensions...