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...harrowing escapes from fog," Levin took a sleepless voyage on a night train to Bucharest. After explaining to airline personnel that he was expected in Paine Hall within hours, he was able to fly to Switzerland and then to Boston in time for his class...
Twenty years ago in Bucharest, the United Nations World Population Conference produced a wish list of things governments might do to get a grip on population: improve the status of women, expand access to health care, alleviate poverty. With the notable exception of Africa, the world has made progress in these areas: infant mortality has declined, as has the percentage of people who live in abject poverty, and the Green Revolution has improved the diet of hundreds of millions of people...
...fact, this effort is unlikely to be any more effective than the agenda that came out of Bucharest 20 years ago. Reason: the principal assumption underlying decades of efforts to halt the population explosion turns out to be questionable at best. This is the "demographic transition," the notion that people will have fewer children as their sense of well-being increases. It has been embraced by such strange bedfellows as the Reagan Administration and Vice President Al Gore because it offers the bland assurance that a nation can achieve the aims of family planning in the course of economic development...
According to Israeli officials, the breakthrough in the sclerotic talks came two weeks ago, when Arafat and Peres consulted over 48 hours in Bucharest. Rabin had told his Foreign Minister that it was time to trade some of the symbolic measures sought by the P.L.O. for the security concessions Israel deemed more important. Arafat accepted the idea, paving the way for an acceleration of the subsequent talks, which were given a strong push by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and U.S. Secretary of State Warren - Christopher, who came to the region last week to help bring the negotiations to a close...
...keeping with the Bucharest principle, Israel bowed to several P.L.O. demands aimed at giving the autonomy authority at least some of the trappings of statehood. The Gaza Strip will have its own international dialing code, no longer sharing Israel's 972 exchange, and the Palestinian authority will be empowered to issue passports to residents of the two enclaves. In return, the P.L.O. accepted a three-mile limitation on territorial waters off the Gaza Strip and gave Israel air rights over the self-rule zones...