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These gimmicks are part of a determined campaign by environmental groups to pressure the President into being part of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which is expected to be the largest gathering of world leaders in history -- and could be the most important. But with less than three months left before the meeting, Bush has still not revealed his plans. Says Senator Al Gore, a Tennessee Democrat: "History has given President Bush a mandate to lead at this critical junction and he has not fulfilled it. It's a disgrace...
...which agreements are being negotiated, American delegates have too often been naysayers, not leaders. A report released this month summing up the Administration's official attitude toward the issues has been widely criticized as being long on statistics but short on solutions. The paper gives little attention to the Rio summit's central theme: the need for sustainable development in which economic growth no longer results in the net destruction of natural resources. For example, the Administration acknowledges the need for a global policy to protect forests, but offers no specific proposals...
...road to Rio de Janeiro will soon be jammed with thousands of delegates attending the U.N.'s June Earth Summit. As green-minded summiteers ponder such now-or-never topics as global warming, the rain-forest crunch and the world's vanishing flora and fauna, the most endangered species of all may be Rio's street children. A Brazilian child-advocacy group reports that 470 juveniles were murdered in the Rio area last year, many of them by death squads made up of off-duty police hired by local shopkeepers. If the authorities can help it, Rio's most endangered...
Partly in response to that competitive threat, Johnson has speeded up efforts to improve CNN's international reporting and programming. Bureaus in Amman, Rio de Janeiro and New Delhi have just been opened; another, in Bangkok, will be in operation by March, giving CNN a total of 16 foreign bureaus, along with eight bureaus in the U.S. Two more hours of original programming will be added to CNN International's daily schedule by mid-1992. In addition, a growing amount of CNN's domestic fare (like World Report, a collection of stories by foreign broadcasters) seems geared as much...
AMAZONIA by Loren McIntyre (Sierra Club Books; $40). This large-format portfolio captures the riches of the vast Amazon Basin, from the white-water region of the western Andes to the black waters of the Rio Negro system, on to the blue of the south, and finally to the brown Amazon mainstream. A dazzling record of an ecological treasure that is fast being destroyed...