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...families in this country who want to work, some of whom can be thrown out of work if we go for too costly an answer to some of these problems. And I'm not going to forget the American family. And if they don't understand that in Rio, too bad." To Bush's critics, that is the kind of us- against-the-world attitude that the Earth Summit was supposed to transcend...
...tried last week to help forge a compromise that would enable the U.S. to sign the treaty. But when he sent proposed changes in the pact to Washington, the White House flatly refused to reconsider its position -- a major embarrassment for Reilly in his dealings with fellow delegates in Rio...
Reilly was still smarting from that decision in Rio. Asked at a reception about the God Squad, he replied, with a touch of bitterness, that it was "a group of people, of which I am a minor divinity, which has the power to blow away a species...
During the environment summit in Rio last week, a Brazilian group called Defenders of the Earth was updating its Lie-O-Meter on a billboard nearby. Purpose: to track "deceit, from 0 to 100" among participants. At week's end the U.S. delegation was scoring...
...dream of environmentalists finally transformed into grand reality. After two years of painstaking preparations, the Earth Summit got under way in Rio de Janeiro with a global guest list of more than 100 world leaders and 30,000 other people concerned about the planet, from climatologists to tribal chieftains. The get-together's size is matched only by its ambition: to put civilization on a path that will sustain economic development without destroying the environment that supports all life. Canadian Maurice Strong, who organized the United Nations-sponsored meeting, set the tone of urgency: "We are either going to save...