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Meanwhile the frontrunners concentrated their fire on each other. Clinton derided George Bush's environmental record as "reactive, rudderless and expedient" and called on the President to attend a global-environment summit in Rio de Janeiro in June. Bush, who has been forced to play catch-up on foreign policy and education, had been hoping to get ahead of his rival by focusing on trade matters. But Clinton's "theme of the week" attack trumped Bush's own effort, and the President hurriedly launched a counterattack on Clinton's environmental record. "This man," said Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, "does know...
Many activists contend that they are on freely circulating "hit lists." Gumercindo Rodrigues, an adviser to Mendes' National Council of Rubber Tappers, is recovering from two gunshot wounds he suffered last September. Gumercindo was shot on a main street in Rio Branco, the Acre state capital. One shot in the back at point-blank range came from a police officer. Press accounts have also implicated Camilo Yunes Junior, a lumber baron, in the shooting. Yunes denies any involvement. No charges have been filed in what the courts have dismissed as a crime of passion because Gumercindo was involved with...
...could be a long year on the Rio Grande. The future's so dark they ought to carry a flashlight Big Back Iovry Lee Brown will...
Brundtland, a world leader on environmental matters, is expected to talk to the June 4 gathering of graduates about balancing economic growth and ecological well-being. She will come to Cambridge from an international Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
Unless negotiations collapse, say White House insiders, Bush will almost surely decide to go to Rio. It will be difficult for him to beg off, since the leaders of the other six major industrial powers are expected to attend, Congress is pressing him to make the trip, and the Democrats are poised to blast his record on the environment. But if the President's motives are just political, the journey south will be an empty exercise. The summit cannot succeed unless the U.S. gets into the spirit of Rio and does its part to create strong new covenants to protect...