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...tried to sound hopeful when he told reporters that some "new ideas" had been presented. Delors was probably closer to the mark when he described the proposals both sides were considering as "modest." The U.S. and E.C. will have still another try in time for the G-7 economic summit in July...
Meanwhile the frontrunners concentrated their fire on each other. Clinton derided George Bush's environmental record as "reactive, rudderless and expedient" and called on the President to attend a global-environment summit in Rio de Janeiro in June. Bush, who has been forced to play catch-up on foreign policy and education, had been hoping to get ahead of his rival by focusing on trade matters. But Clinton's "theme of the week" attack trumped Bush's own effort, and the President hurriedly launched a counterattack on Clinton's environmental record. "This man," said Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, "does know...
Four years later, the Reagan campaign made devastating use of a photograph of Carter embracing Brezhnev at the summit meeting where the arms pact was finally signed, adding a caption, YOU, TOO, CAN KISS OFF CARTER. The voters obliged...
This is not exactly what the neighbors had in mind. The very idea of NATO, the E.C. and other postwar institutions has been to lock Germany into a European structure, not the other way around. Last December's E.C. summit in the Dutch city of Maastricht was supposed to nail down the roof of a house that would contain and control Germany as a cooperative, pacific and co-equal member of the European family. But in the aftermath of Maastricht, Germany has broken ranks on issues large and small, upsetting and sometimes frightening its allies...
Brundtland, a world leader on environmental matters, is expected to talk to the June 4 gathering of graduates about balancing economic growth and ecological well-being. She will come to Cambridge from an international Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...