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...intricate and little understood ecosystem upon which animals and plants, and, yes, man too, depend. What is known is that the old growth plays an integral role in regulating water levels and quality, cleaning the air, enhancing the productivity of fisheries and enriching the stability and character of the soil. "We're probably just on the edge in terms of our understanding," says Eric Forsman, a biologist with the Forest Service. "If we continue pell-mell down the path of eliminating these old forests, we'll never have the opportunity to learn because they won't be there to study...
According to Nye, "the diplomatic gossip has it that [Kohl] and Bush have already worked out" a compromise that would satisfy the Soviets. Such a compromise might include the continued presence of Soviet troops on East German soil, or massive West German payments to the Soviet Bloc...
...even if such a compromise is already in the works, experts say it is unlikely that Kohl would announce it while in the United States. With West German elections set for December, experts say Kohl would want to make such an announcement on German soil, so he could best reap the political profits at home...
...also be the most important foreign policy challenge facing the U.S. in the '90s: how to keep the peace in Europe now that the cold war is over. George Bush not only wants to preserve NATO, with a united Germany as a full member and U.S. troops on its soil; he also wants the Soviet Union to like the idea. In his TIME interview, Mikhail Gorbachev dismissed as "not serious" (a scathing put-down in the lexicon of Soviet diplomacy) the notion that a strengthened NATO will replace a disintegrating Warsaw Pact as the guarantor of the U.S.S.R.'s security...
...Wilbert Blumhardt and his son Glenn have been fighting erosion on their 3,000-acre spread near Bowdle, S. Dak., by planting wheat, sunflowers, soybeans and corn in fields littered by the debris from earlier harvests. "That trash," says Wilbert, "serves an important purpose. It helps feed the soil, and it allows the water to soak in and not wash off into lakes and streams." Last year the Blumhardts' fields produced an average of 27 bu. of wheat an acre, 30% more than conventional farms in the area...