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...April 22, Earth Day 1990 may produce a demonstration of 100 million people in 133 countries, united in a plea to the globe's leaders to get on with the great cleanup. Already there are 1,500 separate programs and demonstrations planned in the U.S., and the harried staff of Earth Day, encamped in a small office in Palo Alto, Calif., receives notification of at least 100 new events each day. They expect crowds of hundreds of thousands of people in New York City and Washington, and out in Tennessee the good green thumbs are expecting to plant 4 million...
...Americans reacted with shock and indignation. Last week it was Exxon's turn to be shocked. U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh announced that the company had been indicted on five criminal counts stemming from the March 1989 oil spill. That action, which reportedly followed the breakdown of a plea bargain that Alaskan officials opposed as too lenient, could cost Exxon $700 million in fines if the company is convicted. Said Thornburgh: "We intend to see that the laws are fully and strictly enforced...
...Baltic states dismissed Gorbachev's plea. Says Valery Chalidze, an exiled dissident and editor: "I think ((the Soviet leaders)) are very far from any clear ideas on what they want in any new constitution." Peter Reddaway, senior Soviet specialist at George Washington University, agrees: "I don't think Gorbachev has any realistic design for a particular type of federation. He is under so much pressure from so many problems that trying to devise something stable is really hopeless...
Under the plea agreement, Kuan will be considered guilty and automatically sentenced to a 90-day jail term if he violates any state or federal law during the rest of the year...
Admitting sufficient facts is "tantamount to a guilty plea," according to Sherman. But under the terms of the agreement reached yesterday, the defendants will have no criminal record if they obey probation conditions through the end of the year...