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...they were part of an international plot to thwart the country's development. All that was supposed to change with the March 1990 inauguration of Fernando Collor de Mello, Brazil's first President with a green heart. Collor named Jose Lutzenberger, one of the world's foremost champions of rain-forest preservation, head of a new environment secretariat. The President also vowed to reverse decades of untrammeled development that destroyed 415,000 sq km (160,000 sq. mi.) -- an area the size of Iraq -- of the Amazon rain forest. He blew up airstrips used by gold miners who had invaded...
...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 contains the world's largest tropical rain forest, its biggest river system and its richest array of plant and animal life. And there is also no better showplace for the threats that face such natural wonders: with the world's 10th largest economy, the country is guilty of all the pollution, deforestation, encroachment on native populations...
...gist of Collor's disagreement with his former Environment Secretary goes right to the core of the Rio summit agenda. Lutzenberger refused to endorse Collor's version of "sustainable development" -- the notion that preservation of Brazil's rain forests and other natural resources is compatible with economic growth. The interim Secretary, a nuclear physicist named Jose Goldemberg, is a strong advocate of this vision of controlled development...
...class marshall, so he gathered togetherthe materials and handed them in two hours beforethe deadline. "I didn't realize that I would haveto work," he says. Today, after eating, he willmeet with Cara Dunne '92 to work on some skits forthe Senior Talent Show. He will make rain plansfor the cookout, make sure the DJ for theMoonlight cruise knows to arrive early, sellsweatshirts, answer questions about CommencementWeek activities, and return along string ofmessages that have built up on his answeringmachine...
Jokes about the morning's pouring rain abounded...