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...like China. And that's just to roll CO2 emissions back to 1990 levels, the goal most environmentalists endorse. To stave off global warming completely, Lindzen maintains, "you would have to reduce emissions to where they were in 1920." Despite noble proclamations issuing from meetings like the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, that is virtually inconceivable. As economist Henry Jacoby of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management puts it, "If you said, 'Let's design a problem that human institutions can't deal with,' you couldn't find one better than global warming...
Such contracts are still the exception, though, which is why the issue of biological resources was on the agenda at the United Nations' 1992 Earth Summit. Statements from the biodiversity convention that resulted declared that countries have a sovereign right to their resources and that benefits deriving from them should be shared fairly. The Bush Administration refused to sign the treaty; President Clinton did sign it, but the Senate has yet to ratify...
...visiting Nixon at San Clemente and vilified Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Hours later, a sleepwalking First Lady Pat Nixon appeared in a nightgown and was carried back to her bed by a kgb agent. How Brezhnev collapsed with seizures just before and after his 1975 summit in Vladivostok with Gerald Ford-and, while summiting with Jimmy Carter in Vienna in 1980, was so out of touch that his interpreters ad-libbed his drooling replies. How Ronald Reagan, when told Dobrynin was returning to Moscow in 1986 to become a Communist Party executive, asked in amazement...
FlorCruz says the Chinese government will try to downplay any attacks if at all possible. "The government needs Hillary Clinton there to add prestige to this conference, and it wants to smooth things over to facilitate the upcoming (October) summit meeting between Chinese President Jiang Zemin and President Clinton. The media so far has downplayed coverage, and the government will try to play the polite host...
...thaw brought on by last week's release ofHarry Wuand First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision to attend a women's conference in China could result in a summit between President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Of course,there's a catch. The Chinese Foreign Ministry today suggested the two leaders might meet if the U.S. "honors its commitment on the question of Taiwan."As far as Beijing is concerned, Washington reneged on its promise to support "one China" when Clinton approved a U.S. visa for Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to visit Cornell last June. "For starters...