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...must move promptly toward comprehensive treaties to protect the air, soil and water. A framework for the effort exists within the U.N., which has already taken some important initiatives. In 1972 the U.N. organized the landmark Stockholm conference, which set up the United Nations Environment Program. It was under UNEP's sponsorship that 24 countries signed the 1987 Montreal Protocol, calling for a reduction in the output of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. There have also been proposals to enhance UNEP's role as a sort of intergovernmental superagency on environmental questions...
...where the chemical wastes of thousands of factories are flushed directly into the sea or carried there by major rivers. The chances of getting all 18 countries that border the Mediterranean to agree on methods of controlling pollution seemed remote. But five years ago, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) decided to try. Last week at a conference in Athens that climaxed a remarkable feat of scientific diplomacy, the U.N. team won the approval of all but one of the Mediterranean nations (xenophobic Albania) for a treaty outlining ways to clean...