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...past year or so, only $100 million in debt has been forgiven in return for preserves in Costa Rica and elsewhere. The sticking point: Who will bear the cost of the debt relief? So far, private environmental groups have bought small amounts of Third World debt securities from commercial lenders, but the governments of the developed nations will have to put in more money if the debt-for-nature concept is to pick up momentum...
...unseat seven of a targeted "dirty dozen" politicians and spur the passage of clean-air-and-water legislation. Today Eastern Europe, perhaps the grimiest industrial region on earth, could use Earth Day to focus newly aroused democratic forces on their poisoned air and land. So could much of the Third World, where billions of people grievously stretch the capacity of forests and other resources...
...more important for the Soviets to get intelligence on key foreign policy matters, congressional intentions, defense and advanced technology." As for the U.S., it will need as much information as possible on the players in the unpredictable dramas of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in the volatile Third World. Says former CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "If we don't build a worldwide information network today, we won't have it ten years down the road when we need...
...coke, the fat slob in the fourth row spills his beer, the usher sells a We're Number One felt finger, the mascot kisses a bikini-clad fan, the general manager exiles a third baseman to Cleveland for a player to be named later, the organist plays a march, the crowd bellows "Charge," an Eastern European government goes belly-up, a newborn baby enters the world, a cancer victim leaves it and the cycle begins again. Four hundred times a game. One hundred sixty-two games a year...
...think its nice that we all take time to do this," said Elliott Koeber, a World War II veteran who was in Normandy with Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army. "It shows we're proud of what we've done...