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...takes a thief to catch a thief. Which is why an enterprising Rio broadcaster has signed up Ronald Biggs to dispense travel and safety advice to the thousands of delegates attending the Earth Summit next month. An alumnus of the legendary gang that heisted $7.3 million from a Glasgow-London mail train in 1963, Biggs has been a fugitive in Brazil for more than 20 years. He plans to counsel listeners on how to avoid the city's rampant street crime, and he may also throw in some practical tips to visitors on coddling a queasy stomach or dealing with...
...Saving the Earth's environment is now emergingas the central organizing principle of thepost-Cold War world," Gore said. "The Earth summitin Rio is the designated time and place for thistask to begin...
Gore criticized President Bush for guttingagreements that were to be singed at Rio. "Asymbolic appearance without any meaningful changein policy amounts to nothing," Gore said...
...SHELLING OF THE 7TH CENTURY CITY OF DUBROVNIK BY the Serbian navy during Yugoslavia's fighting last year has given rise to an unusual resolution to be voted upon at the global environmental conference in Rio next month. UNESCO has a list of 358 cultural and historical structures, ranging from the Acropolis, the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China to Vatican City, the Statue of Liberty and the Taj Mahal. UNESCO seeks to make war activities "which are intended, or may be expected, to cause long-term or severe damage to the properties" a war crime under the Geneva...
Bush's very public dithering over whether to make the Rio trip only underscores his image as indecisive. Bush wants to go but is hemmed in by conservatives who believe that U.S. participation in such global parleys undercuts American power. Buchanan called on Bush to forgo the Rio meeting and instead "send a telegram" to the conferees explaining that the U.S. would not "yield one iota of our sovereignty to these global parasites...