Word: raine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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KOMATIPOORT, South Africa--President Samora Machel of Mozambique, who led his Marxist nation through 11 crisis-ridden years of independence, was killed when his plane crashed into a rain-swept South African hillside...
...into either liberal or conservative platforms. As one liberal observer said of the expected returns, "It'll be pretty ideological." This is certainly true of the abortion question, divided as it is between existing battle fronts, and of the two legislative advisory questions on national health insurance and acid rain...
...advisory" questions. Both are considered likely to pass. Many labor and liberal organizations, as well as the governor and both Massachusetts U.S. Senators, support Question 7, which would advise the Massachusetts legislature and Congress that voters favor national health insurance. Question 8 favors a national program to combat acid rain...
Alarmed by the rate of tropical deforestation, scientists are no longer shy about criticizing commercial and public development schemes that eat away vast tracts of rain forest. "In the past, many biologists thought it was almost unscientific to get involved in conservation politics," says Lovejoy. "But no more. The rate of species loss is suddenly dawning on people." The warning has been heeded in government circles as well. The House of Representatives two weeks ago passed legislation sponsored by Gus Yatron, Democrat of Pennsylvania, mandating that the U.S. Agency for International Development set aside $10 million to preserve biodiversity...
...know the amount is too little and fear the gesture may be too late. Says Wilson: "The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect...