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...agreement. Secretary of State George Shultz, attending NATO and trade meetings in Brussels, struggled to convince the allies that resistance to the MX in the U.S. is not quite the same as resistance in some Western European nations to positioning nuclear-tipped Pershing II and cruise missiles on their soil as scheduled for next year. "We have 1,000 long-range land-based Minutemen throughout the West," Shultz emphasized. The MX, he said, is just "a modernization of that system...
...considered sanctions against the Soviet natural-gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe. They are improving now that the sanctions have been lifted, but face an acid test next year, when several NATO countries are scheduled to station U.S.-made intermediate-range nuclear missiles on their soil, over the furious objections of domestic antinuclear movements...
...winds that disperse it. In the northeast U.S. and in Canada and northern Europe, it is reducing lakes, rivers and ponds to eerily crystalline, lifeless bodies of water, killing off everything from indigenous fish stocks to microscopic vegetation. It is suspected of spiriting away mineral nutrients from the soil on which forests thrive. Its corrosive assault on buildings and water systems costs millions of dollars annually. It may also pose a substantial threat to human health, principally by contaminating public drinking water. Says Canada's Minister of the Environment John Roberts: "Acid rain is one of the most devastating...
...defined as having a pH level under 5.6 (a neutral solution has pH 7). Despite the use of tracking balloons and other sophisticated techniques, it is difficult to link acidity with a specific smokestack. But there is little doubt about the damaging effects of acid rain. Absorbed into the soil, it breaks down minerals containing calcium, potassium and aluminum, robbing plants of nutrients. Eventually the acid enters nearby bodies of water, often with a deadly burden of toxic metals that can stunt or kill aquatic Life...
...research in the U.S. and West Germany strongly suggests that acid rain combines with traces of toxic metals emitted into the atmosphere by fossil fuel-burning plants to leach away nutrients that sustain trees. In addition, scientists believe the mixture of acid rain and aluminum trace elements in the soil is absorbed by roots and can choke off a tree's water supply...