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Like a once great slugger emerging from a long slump, George Bush finally pushed one over the bleachers last week. After 10 months of maneuvering to little effect on the recession, the Los Angeles riots and the Rio Earth Summit, Bush won from Boris Yeltsin a breakthrough arms-control deal and engineered the horseshoe-throwing, arm-around-Barbara scenes that remind people of his other up-close-and-personal diplomatic triumphs...
Brundtland came to Commencement straight from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and she used her speech to discuss some topics under consideration there...
...have been stunned to see how the Rio Conference seems to fail to make workable decisions on how to curb population growth, " she said, blaming the Vatican for blocking family planning measures...
After that calamity, the Rio conference turned out to be comparatively free of controversy. For weeks Bush had acted more like a latter-day James Watt than "the environmental President," at first uncertain about attending the conference and then blocking a variety of proposals from major allies, developing countries and even William Reilly, his own Environmental Protection Agency director, that were designed to improve the environment into the 21st century. Bush seemed to be caught between two constituencies he holds dear -- on one side conservatives and business leaders who oppose spending on the environment, and on the other conservationists whose...
...better to cast his lot with his party's conservative base than to try to be all things to all people. "For the past half-century," said Bush, "the U.S. has been the great engine of global economic growth, and it's going to stay that way." Once in Rio, Bush signed a climate-change treaty calling on all nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and provide specific plans for meeting that goal -- something the U.S. has already begun. Bush was criticized by some environmentalists for pledging less in new aid to developing nations than did Japan, which announced...