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...pact calls for a review every ten to 15 years of whether unprotected woodlands should be included in the wilderness system. During that time, the Forest Service will be permitted to manage the land as it pleases, including opening it to developers. The agreement is a victory for environmentalists who have long argued for a review system for unprotected Government forests. Administration officials and allies, chief among them Idaho's Republican Senator James McClure, have been opposed to this, arguing that developers need "certitude" if they are going to invest in land development. Says Max Peterson, head...
...allies. By thus rendering an attacker's weapons impotent, the U.S. would not have to count on ballistic missiles and bombers to deter Soviet aggression or to retaliate against an attack. No longer would "crisis stability" between the superpowers have to be enshrined in a suicide pact...
...stark vacuity is the antiseptic, materialistic world of budget sheets, computers and industry analyses that soaks up precious energy of today's young executives. Any humanist contemplating a business career should read The Real World before entering into what may later be regretted as a Faustian pact...
...small clearing in the Alto de la Mesa rain forest, F.A.R.C. guerrillas and the government's representatives met to sign a momentous eleven-point cease-fire agreement. Last week Colombian President Belisario Betancur Cuartas triumphantly announced on national television his government's formal acceptance of that pact...
...been fighting for the past 28 years. The government hopes the new cease-fire arrangement will encourage other militant factions to enter into similar agreements. Betancur, a co-founder of the Contadora group that has been trying to bring peace to Central America, also believes that the pact with F.A.R.C. demonstrates that negotiations are a workable alternative to a military solution for problems in Central and South America...