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Getting both Democrats to the table at the Butler Aviation facility in Chicago took the political sophistication of a campaign-trail veteran like columnist Michael Kramer. The result was a summit that chief of correspondents John Stacks believes is unprecedented in the age of television. "I cannot think of a comparable situation where two leading candidates agreed to devote this much time and depth debating each other for print," says Stacks...
...road to Rio de Janeiro will soon be jammed with thousands of delegates attending the U.N.'s June Earth Summit. As green-minded summiteers ponder such now-or-never topics as global warming, the rain-forest crunch and the world's vanishing flora and fauna, the most endangered species of all may be Rio's street children. A Brazilian child-advocacy group reports that 470 juveniles were murdered in the Rio area last year, many of them by death squads made up of off-duty police hired by local shopkeepers. If the authorities can help it, Rio's most endangered...
Walking across the White House lawn to his helicopter last week, George Bush paused to tell reporters that his first formal summit meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin will take place in Washington on June 16 and 17. As Bush flew off to make a campaign speech in Illinois, briefers quickly ^ explained that the Yeltsin talks would center on nuclear arms control, not on economic aid for Russia, and that no new offers of help were likely. "We've given him about everything we can," said a White House official...
Vandana Shiva, executive director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and National Resource Policy in India, and Helena L. Norberg-Hodge, founder and director of the Labakh Project, gave the talk as part of an Earth Summit Awareness Tour...
...Summit; 365 pages...