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...power plants and landfills spew out carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping gases by the ton. Left unchecked, many scientists believe, the buildup in the atmosphere could create the greenhouse effect, boosting temperatures and changing weather patterns in unpredictable, probably destructive ways. At last year's Rio Earth Summit, world leaders agreed that emissions of greenhouse gases should be curbed, but at the insistence of the U.S., the resulting treaty contained no firm goals or mandatory steps. The White House didn't get serious about the issue until the election of eco-conscious Bill Clinton, who pledged in April...
...Russian Summit Planned...
...might come the Baltic states -- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia -- and in the more distant future the others, possibly including parts of the former Soviet Union, including Russia itself. German Defense Minister Volker Ruhe enthusiastically lobbied the rest of the alliance to put expansion on the agenda for a NATO summit scheduled for January. "It is in our basic national interests to expand NATO and the E.C. eastward one step at a time," he said. "It doesn't take a genius to realize that...
...Washington is eager to mend fences. After Shattuck, Agriculture Secretary Michael Espy will visit Beijing to discuss trade issues, and there is talk of a subsequent foray by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. Finally, Clinton will meet with Jiang in Seattle around Nov. 20 during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit...
...meeting of the Global Forum in Moscow in 1990, when he was still Soviet President, Gorbachev proposed an organization roughly analogous to the International Red Cross to contend with environmental problems that cross national boundaries. Last year the Earth Summit in Rio passed a resolution establishing the International Green Cross, and six months later the Dutch government donated $1.1 million to get things going. At about the same time, Roland Wiederkehr, an environmentalist and member of the Swiss Federal Assembly, started the World Green Cross. Gracefully acknowledging Gorbachev's star power, Wiederkehr accepted the Russian's invitation to merge...