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...efforts to slow tropical deforestation should have been in effect for years. Instead, sponsors had to convene in Geneva last month for what James D. Barnes of Friends of the Earth described as a "make or break" meeting to see whether the foundering plan could even be saved...
...director general Edouard Saouma, an autocratic executive who likes to run his own show, has fought to keep control. Under threat of a funding cutoff from the sponsoring organizations, however, the U.N. organization agreed in Geneva earlier this month to cede control of the program to an outside governing council and to participate in the program's redesign. For the moment, these decisions have partially mollified critics, who are willing to wait to see whether these actions will produce meaningful reform...
...What you want me to do is say that those instructions were sent specifically by me on my specific orders. There are probably 312,000 cables that go out under my name." Although Baker took eight aides to his Jan. 9 meeting with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Geneva, Glaspie was not among them, nor was she asked to join his postwar tour of the gulf earlier this month...
...spread to other conflicts. "I don't think we can tolerate this happening again," says Michael Renner, senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute. "The environment is already under attack from our activities in peacetime." What can be done to prevent recurrences? One possibility: an international agreement that, like a Geneva Convention, would make ecoterrorism a war crime as punishable by law as the murder of hostages or the torture of POWs...
Scarcely had the meeting begun in the Salon des Nations conference room of Geneva's Intercontinental Hotel when U.S. Secretary of State James Baker handed Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz a brown manila envelope stamped with the presidential seal. Inside was a letter from George Bush warning Saddam Hussein to get out of Kuwait by Jan. 15 -- six days hence -- or face the certainty that the 28-nation coalition would force him out. Aziz, fluent in English, carefully looked over a photocopy that had been provided for him. When he finished, the Iraqi lowered his heavy black-frame glasses...