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Being spoiler at the Earth Summit is a stunning role for the U.S., which after World War II was the driving force behind the creation of the United Nations and the World Bank. In the campaign to fashion a new environmental order, however, other nations are taking the lead. Canada...
That pledge has even more resonance now that Perot has signed up two men who understand their own parties' weaknesses. The son of a California electrician who grew up in public housing, Rollins is in many ways typical of the Reagan Democrats who began to abandon the party in the...
Brazil is the perfect setting for the Earth Summit, which will bring nearly 100 world leaders and 30,000 other participants to Rio de Janeiro during the next two weeks. There is no better showcase of the natural wonders that the summiteers will pledge to preserve and protect: the country...
It comes down to a matter of cash. The North has it. The South needs it. And the changes that must be made to achieve sustainable development will not occur unless some of that wealth finds its way from North to South. So far, the industrial nations have held pretty...
Hopes for a compromise lifted briefly in late March when the head of the American delegation, Assistant Secretary of State Curtis Bohlen, announced that the U.S. had reversed itself and accepted the idea that "new and additional financial resources" would be needed to pay for environmental action in poor countries...