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In 1992, President George Herbert Walker Bush signed, and the U.S. Senate ratified, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This treaty, by which the ratifying nations (now numbering 188) pledge to avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, has fallen on hard times. The voluntary measures originally thought...
The U.S. has good reason to be impatient. The Commerce Department reported last week that the American trade deficit in June was $13.4 billion, the second highest monthly total in history. More than a third of that shortfall resulted from a $4.6 billion deficit with Japan, which matched a record...
DIED. Dan White, 39, former San Francisco supervisor who in 1978 shot to death the city's mayor, George Moscone, and its first openly homosexual supervisor, Harvey Milk; by his own hand (carbon-monoxide poisoning); in San Francisco. At his 1979 trial, White pleaded "diminished capacity," contending that a diet...
Any Wall Street trader could make a killing if he got advance notice of the Commerce Department's quarterly estimate of the country's economic growth. On the day it is released, that statistic can send the financial markets into a sharp upward or downward spurt. Thus Government officials became...
More than any other international issue since the Viet Nam War, the question of apartheid has touched off a wave of public protest and voluntary arrest in the U.S. that is far from being confined to Washington. While demonstrators have been taking to the streets of the capital, others across...