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...after seven years in office, Gonzalez -- and, apparently, the electorate -- remains unfazed by the criticism; he is expected to lead his party to a third consecutive victory on Oct. 29. The Prime Minister feels confident enough about the outcome to leave the campaign trail and visit Washington this week, his first official trip to the U.S. since 1984 and his first substantive meeting with President George Bush since the two countries renewed their defense agreement last year and arranged for the transfer of 72 U.S. Air Force fighters from Spain to Italy...
...Third World spokesmen may simply be trying to deflect the criticism they deserve, but they have a point: the U.S.'s actions tend to undermine its words. The U.S. is the biggest culprit in the buildup of gases that threaten to disrupt the global climate. Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies has concluded that by using existing technologies, such as more energy-efficient automobiles and manufacturing methods, the U.S. could reduce its CO2 output 40% over 40 years. That action alone would take more greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere than a total shutdown of industry...
...Reagan years, the U.S. championed the cause of family planning in poorer countries. Then antiabortion lobbyists persuaded the White House to halt U.S. participation in overseas programs that sanctioned abortion. Nowhere is the slogan pro-life more cruelly inappropriate than in the vast famine-stricken regions of the Third World, where birth and death rates are entwined in a vicious spiral. Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute notes that 40,000 babies die each day from malnutrition and disease, and that many of these deaths occur in areas where overpopulation has destroyed ecosystems vital for human survival...
...economic summit in Paris in July, the leaders of the seven largest industrial democracies devoted a third of their final communique to an appeal for "decisive action" to "understand and protect the earth's ecological balance." Just a month earlier, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, representing the major economic powers, had called upon "all relevant national, regional and international organizations" of its 24 member states to take a "vigilant, serious and realistic" look at "balancing long- term environmental costs and benefits against near-term economic growth...
...productive dialogue with the developed world" on "protection of the environment." As if heeding that appeal, on Sept. 11, at an international environmental conference in Tokyo, Japan's new Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu affirmed a pledge that his country would offer $2.25 billion to tackle pollution in the Third World...