Word: rios
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...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...
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...
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...
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...