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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholarship fund without an indenture...

Author: By B. K. Wenceslaus, | Title: Crimson Beneficence | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

Despite this trend, the Reagan Administration slashed aid to international family-planning programs, and President Bush has not restored it. He recently vetoed a $15 billion foreign aid package because he feared that a tiny $15 million targeted for the U.N. Population Fund might help support abortion services in 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Earth U.S. Agenda Government Get Going, Mr.Bush | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...Alexandria participants were: Lester Brown, Worldwatch Institute; John Chafee, U.S. Senate, Rhode Island; Michael Deland, Council on Environmental Quality; Kathryn Fuller, World Wildlife Fund; Albert Gore, U.S. Senate, Tennessee; Denis Hayes, Earth Day 1990; Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution; Michael McElroy, Harvard University; Kenneth Piddington, World Bank Environment Department; Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California at Irvine; James Gustave Speth, World Resources Institute; Mostafa Tolba, United Nations Environment Program; and Alexei Yablokov, Congress of People's Deputies, U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Dec 18 1989 | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...World Wildlife Fund Book of Orchids by Jack Kramer (Abbeville; $65). Bursts of magenta, delicate pastel-tinged whites, a green so dark it is nearly black. Blossoms fluted or fringed, mottled or striped, on plants 30 ft. tall or pendulous stems dripping with 30 flowers. Dazzling in its diversity, the orchid boasts some 35,000 wild species, found as far north as the Arctic Circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tidings Of Color and Joy | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Suppose we save $20 billion to $30 billion in defense spending on Europe in the next few years. Let's dedicate a third or a fourth of that to a Central European Recovery Fund. If we make a substantial contribution, I think the Europeans will more than match it, and we can bring the Japanese into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI : Vindication Of a Hard-Liner: | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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