Word: unlessness
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Financial experts are beginning to recognize that Washington will be unable to control drug money unless the U.S. compels offshore financial institutions to make their books "transparent" enough to show the true owners of the money. In the end, the Colombian drug cartels are about to force the world to re-examine the international financial system that has developed haphazardly over the 60 years since the Swiss first popularized secret banking. Countries may not yet be willing to make their banking transactions fully "transparent," but some light must be shed on everyone's books. Says Kerry: "It will take significant...
...verification methods. Reducing conventional forces could save money, but not much: defense-budget experts from the Rand Corp. to the Congressional Budget agree that a 50% reduction in U.S. troops in Europe would yield savings of only $6 billion to $7 billion a year. Real savings would not occur unless troops based in the U.S. are demobilized, a politically unappetizing prospect because of its impact on local economies...
...China. Getting birth-control information and devices to the 2.5 billion people beyond the present reach of family-planning programs will require $8 billion annually, a $5 billion rise from current levels. In 1989 the U.S. contributed $245 million to such programs, less in real terms than in 1979. Unless America reverses its present policy, it sends a message to the world that the U.S. considers mass starvation preferable to the termination of unwanted pregnancies...
International efforts to preserve the biosphere will not succeed unless the Third World goes along with them. The irony is that the laissez-faire, free- market rules that allowed the industrial world to prosper must now be suspended. "If the developing nations, home to 8 out of 10 people, repeat the pattern of development of the North," warns UNEP's Tolba, "if they reach the North's levels of consumer goods and fuel consumption, and if they continue to clear the forests, then our mutual destruction is assured...
Ozone Depletion. Next April, representatives from scores of countries will meet in London to complete the agreement to phase out CFC production by the year 2000. But unless all major nations accept the ban, efforts to halt ozone depletion may prove fruitless...