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Belinda Augustin, who will moderate a summit to take place at Rindge and Latin this evening, says she hopes that a greater understanding will emerge from the meeting...
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE "ENVIronmental President"? In 1988 Vice President Bush vowed to combat the greenhouse effect with the "White House effect," and mercilessly attacked Michael Dukakis for his failure to clean up Boston Harbor. But last June, President Bush played Scrooge at the Earth Summit in Brazil. In September he visited timber country in the Pacific Northwest, where he promised to lift a court-imposed injunction that has halted logging in federally owned ancient forests. His Interior Department is planning to open national forests to private strip mining. What happened between 1988 and 1992? Politics happened...
Senator Gore, who led the congressional delegation that attended the Earth Summit in Rio, is the Senate's most committed and knowledgeable environmentalist. Last spring Houghton Mifflin published Gore's best-selling Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, a call for Americans to take urgent action in the face of a global ecological crisis...
...world leaders united at the Earth Summit in Rio last June, and the Bush administration ignored their recommendations. Let's make sure the Harvard administration doesn't ignore our demands...
...WORLD DID PRESIDENT BUSH CHOOSE TO HOLD HIS December 1989 summit with Mikhail Gorbachev on board heaving ships off the wintry coast of Malta? After the world's most powerful duo endured the so-called seasick summit, the President tweaked his younger brother WILLIAM ("Bucky") BUSH for suggesting the stormy site. It turns out that Bucky, an international investment consultant, had business ties to firms that could have profited from the choice of a tiny nation trying to boost its tourism. He was, for example, a consultant for CIGA, an Italian hotel firm that was mulling construction...