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...enmity started when Yeltsin began to display a calculated indifference to protocol at Politburo meetings. As a candidate member, he was expected to show proper respect for his superiors, especially General Secretary Gorbachev. Instead he chose to treat the ritualized meetings as a setting for serious debate. In the summer of 1987 he boldly offered a long list of objections to a report Gorbachev planned to present on the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution. The party chief stormed out and left the other members sitting silently for half an hour before he returned. At that moment, Yeltsin said, "Gorbachev...
Dispensing quickly with protocol, Gorbachev motioned his visitors to join him, along with two aides and an interpreter, in deep-cushioned brown leather chairs ranged around a small oval table of stylishly crafted, elegantly polished black wood. The intimate setting was in marked contrast to the traditional long, rectangular, green baize-covered table at which delegations in Communist countries square off over battlements of bottled mineral water...
Gorbachev made a noncommittal reply. I said, "Thank you again. Goodbye." (Contrary to the demands of protocol, I brought the conversation to a close, not Gorbachev. I must have felt under stress and perhaps subconsciously feared that I might say too much.) Gorbachev had little choice, so he said, "Goodbye...
Under the 1987 Montreal Protocol, the major nations have already pledged a 50% reduction in the production of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons by 1999. Last year the European Community and the U.S. tentatively agreed to push for a complete ban by the end of the century. The task now is to translate that understanding into a formal treaty, which should include all nations, especially the Soviet Union and East European countries. In the meantime, plastic-foam manufacturers in the U.S. say they will stop using CFCs in their products, and Vermont has decreed that the chemicals must be eliminated from auto...
...problem is and because taking strong steps against it could cause severe economic dislocations. The U.N. is sponsoring a major study that could provide the basis for a coordinated international approach to global warming. American leadership is critical to this effort, just as it was to the Montreal Protocol...