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...Government connection surfaced when it turned out that a fourth of the export credits extended by BNL had been backed by the Commodity Credit Corporation. The CCC, an arm of the Department of Agriculture, provides guarantees to spur sales of U.S. farm products. But the department's own inquiry revealed that the CCC had no idea whether the credits it had backed were used to purchase U.S. farm commodities that actually reached Iraq, or were resold to third countries for hard currency. Possibly some of the credit guarantees backed shipments of nonagricultural products like transportation spare parts...
...interview, photographer David Burnett got Gorbachev, on the spur of the moment, to pose by the window. Late for his next meeting, the Soviet leader would not keep still. "He began to walk away after I had taken only four shots," Burnett says. But he was able to take several dozen pictures, including the one on the opening pages of our special section...
...want you to believe me. I want you to understand me." For Soviets that is a haunting answer to the years when blind faith was obligatory. For Americans it is a sorrowful reminder that any leader, however inspirational, runs into the greatest trouble when he tries to spur people to think...
That may be so. The Administration is wise to consider the possible economic damage before committing itself to a major reduction in carbon dioxide < emissions. But surely the Government can safely do much more than it has already done to spur energy conservation. It is possible to buy a great deal of insurance against global warming without sabotaging the economy...
...numbers has served notice to dictators from Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines to Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania that their time was up. Back in 1970, activists capitalized on an outpouring of environmental sentiment during the first Earth Day to unseat seven of a targeted "dirty dozen" politicians and spur the passage of clean-air-and-water legislation. Today Eastern Europe, perhaps the grimiest industrial region on earth, could use Earth Day to focus newly aroused democratic forces on their poisoned air and land. So could much of the Third World, where billions of people grievously stretch the capacity of forests...