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Next week environmental officials from around the world will meet in the Netherlands to discuss concerted steps on CO2 emissions. The U.S. will be there, but probably without a policy. In February the U.S. will be host to an international conference on climate change in Washington. Bush is expected to address the conference. The temperature in the hall will probably be more comfortable than it was when he gave his "I am an environmentalist" speech in the hot summer of 1988. But unless he has more to show on the greenhouse effect than rhetoric, the President should be mopping...
...years environmentalists and loggers have quarreled over the fate of "old- growth" forests in the Pacific Northwest. Conservationists contend that cutting the ancient trees on federally owned land in Oregon and Washington State threatens the habitat of the endangered spotted owl, which lives only in old-growth forests. The lumber industry objects that a ban would devastate the timber-based economies of the region. Last week George Bush signed into law a compromise hammered out by a congressional conference committee. It prohibits sales of timber from areas where the spotted owl dwells, but permits 7.7 billion board feet of wood...
...cases of rape or incest. His second veto, which came as he was leaving town for Costa Rica, indicated how firmly he has decided to stand with the right-to-life movement: the D.C. budget he killed also contained $32 million for the Administration's drive to make Washington a showcase in the war on drugs...
...success of perestroika will depend on the Soviets, but Washington can help Gorbachev by reaching agreements to cut conventional arms and strategic nuclear arsenals. In addition, Shevardnadze in his speech last week spoke of Moscow's desire to join such Western economic institutions as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and GATT (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). Like Hungary, the Soviet Union could benefit from most-favored-nation trade status...
Seven years have passed since the Viet Nam memorial was dedicated in Washington. Seven years since the heated, at times ugly, controversy that swirled around the design and its designer seemed to evaporate, in an instant, once the nation could witness for itself the overwhelming effect those two walls of polished black granite have on all who visit them, place flags and flowers beside them and touch the more than 58,000 names inscribed on them...