Word: extinctionism
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The arrival of the cranes is symbolic of a 180 degrees turnaround in China's attitudes toward birds and indeed much of its wildlife. In 1959 Mao Tse-tung, then Chairman of the Communist Party, declared a "people's war" against the despised "four pests": rats, flies, mosquitoes and, especially...
Western Europe's unions are, of course, a long way from extinction. The spirit of solidarity still burns brightly in the hearts and imaginations of many Europeans, decades after unions first began to stand up for the working man and woman. But labor's problems--chronic unemployment, dwindling membership, the...
Reagan's budget is considered dead before arrival in Congress. Senate Republican leaders have vowed to write a budget of their own. The centerpiece is a freeze on most federal programs, including defense and Social Security. This would save $38 billion next year by eliminating cost of living increases and...
There were other blinding flashes of fear: diplomats cut down on fashionable European streets, mines strewn in the Red Sea, even the awards ceremony for Nobel Peace Prizewinner Bishop Desmond Tutu disrupted by a bomb threat. From the elegant Libyan embassy on a leafy London square, a mad spray of...
Some U.S. officials contend that the contras will be in danger of extinction next year unless they receive more § arms. According to Washington, the Sandinistas are assembling up to a dozen Soviet-made Mi-24 Hind helicopters capable of flying some 200 m.p.h. and carrying air-to-surface missiles...