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Suriname's pristine tropical rain forests are coveted by Asian timber companies. But last week the tiny country (pop. 400,000) announced that it is setting aside a tenth of its land--some 4 million acres--as a nature reserve, forgoing short-term profits for revenues from science and ecotourism. Conservation International, which brokered the deal, hopes it will be a model for other developing countries...
Roses, carnations and lilies droop from the chain-link fence outside Thurston High School, and a makeshift plywood cross juts from the ground nearby. Beneath it, a hand-printed sign reads WILL WE EVER LEARN? But as the timber town of Springfield, Ore. (pop. 51,000), grieved last week, the lessons were far from obvious...
...dire need of foreign currency, the junta has sold off Burma's timber, oil and gas to multinational corporations, has turned a blind eye to the flourishing opium trade and has gone begging to multinational banks and international donors. The foreign reserves it gains allow the regime to buy weapons and maintain a brutal control exercised in the 1998 massacres of demonstrators and students. The military establishment has maintained its power over much of the country despite rebellion by oppressed ethnic minorities and the democratic election which the military lost...
Efforts by U.S. Forest Service chief MIKE DOMBECK to disentangle the USFS from the timber industry have provoked a fight with Congress. Republicans are so angry with Dombeck for hampering logging that on Thursday, in an unusual joint hearing, the House Resources, Budget and Appropriations committees will question Dombeck in what is likely to be a scorching job review. Convinced that tree cutting should no longer take priority over conservation and recreation, Dombeck, a former backwoods guide turned scientist, increased restrictions on logging. In his most significant step, he proposed halting construction of new roads in most of the national...
...dampened again as Suharto announced his new Cabinet and for the first time included a family member: his eldest daughter, known as "Tutut," who has extensive business interests. The new Trade Minister is chief crony Bob Hasan, a golfing partner dubbed "the Plywood King" for his control of the timber trade...