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...industrial nations have shown no such solidarity. European nations, pressured by powerful green movements of their own, sound quite progressive on environmental issues, but they are still not very good at enforcing their antipollution laws. Japan, stung by its image as an ecological outlaw for its whaling practices and its insatiable appetite for raw wood, seems determined to present itself in these talks as an environmental world leader...
...public feels about him, which is, in a word, great. A poll in the crucial state of California shows Perot in first place, followed by Bush and then the Arkansas Governor. A national poll by the Times Mirror reveals a close three-way race with the President, who, apparently stung by his initial fumbling reaction to the riots, garnered 33%, barely edging out his two challengers, who captured 30% each...
APRIL 22--Harvard returned to its winning ways, steamrolling Brown, 13-4. The offense, stagnant against Loyola, returned to life and stung the Bears on multiple occasions...
...fact, Germany's initial hesitancy to support the anti-Iraq coalition may have helped produce Bonn's recent burst of assertive energy. The term gulf syndrome is applied to German leaders who, stung by criticism of their early reluctance to support Desert Storm, are determined never again to be thought timid. There is even some concern that Kohl is going too far in that direction. "Except for Hitler you have to go back a long way to find a German head of government who speaks so provocatively and insensitively about the outside world," says Heinrich Jaenecke, a columnist...
...accomplish this trick, the probable centerpiece of Clinton's speech will involve how and to what extent the U.S. should aid the former Soviet Union. Stung by Pat Buchanan's isolationist attacks and the common criticism that he has spent too much time on foreign affairs, Bush has virtually ignored the issue. In pleading poverty ("There isn't a lot of money around . . . I don't have a blank check") and refusing to heed Richard Nixon's warnings about chaos and a return to dictatorship in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Bush has offered Clinton a window of opportunity...