Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congress should pass legislation which would protect gay men and lesbians. Federal authorities should be permitted to take over investigations of hate-related crimes where there is a possibility justice will not be properly dispensed...
...research and education are no substitutes for concrete action. The world community must move promptly toward comprehensive treaties to protect the air, soil and water. A framework for the effort exists within the U.N., which has already taken some important initiatives. In 1972 the U.N. organized the landmark Stockholm conference, which set up the United Nations Environment Program. It was under UNEP's sponsorship that 24 countries signed the 1987 Montreal Protocol, calling for a reduction in the output of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. There have also been proposals to enhance UNEP's role as a sort of intergovernmental superagency...
...mile dam made up of 131-ft. steel locks that remain open during normal conditions, to preserve the tidal flow that feeds the rich local sea life, but can be closed when rough weather threatens. Venice is beginning to put into place a 1.2-mile flexible seawall that would protect its treasured landmarks against Adriatic storms without doing ecological damage to the city's lagoon...
Internationally, the Soviets are pushing for stronger accords to protect the environment and are seeking ways to integrate their atmospheric-research efforts with those under way elsewhere. For the first time since World War II, the Soviet Union and the U.S. may have found a common enemy: global climate change. Said President Mikhail Gorbachev in his speech this month to the U.N. General Assembly: "International economic security is inconceivable unless related not only to disarmament but also to the elimination of the threat to the world's environment...
...opposes all government-subsidized debt relief for Third World countries. At a minimum, federal regulators should encourage U.S. banks to participate in programs that reduce debt in exchange for steps taken by debtor nations to protect tropical rain forests and other resources...