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George Bush has come under heavy fire for failing to live up to his promise to be the Environmental President. Last month he infuriated environmentalists by arguing that action against the threat of global warming should wait for more research. The man behind that go-slow position was John Sununu. An announcement by the U.S. delegate to a United Nations meeting in Geneva last week came as a further shock: the U.S. will oppose the creation of a new $100 million fund to help developing countries avoid using chlorofluorocarbons...
...least there is some legitimate controversy over the science of global warming. There is virtually none when it comes to ozone depletion. So why is the U.S. balking, when the country's share would amount to no more than $25 million over the next three years? Sununu and Budget Director Richard Darman contend that the economic costs of protecting the environment have been overlooked. They fear the precedent of turning money over to international bodies that may try to dictate how countries, including the U.S., respond to environmental problems...
During a recent trip to the Ural Mountains to drum up support for perestroika, Gorbachev commented to associates that for the first time in his many forays into the heartland, no one had asked him about U.S.-Soviet relations or the threat of global war. The good news, perhaps, was that everyone knows the danger has diminished. The bad news, however, might be that everyone is too obsessed with the scarcity of dairy products, poultry and apartments to notice...
...Solomon Gursky Was Here is far more than family saga. On the journey from rawhide to velvet, the Gurskys participate in nearly every event of global importance, from Arctic exploration to the rescue at Entebbe, from Mao's Long March to Nixon's Watergate. Despite the obvious temptations, Richler never reduces them to mere symbols of Jewish persistence or the Canadian past. Each member of his large and hilarious cast has three dimensions and at least two faces...
From Guatemala to Thailand to Mexico, smugglers brazenly promote their services in newspapers or on radio stations. In Manila former U.S. embassy employees advertise their own smuggling operation on storefronts right across from the embassy. As in any other industry, a global pricing system has evolved. At the top: Chinese citizens from Taiwan, Hong Kong or the People's Republic, who generally pay $20,000 to $38,000 apiece. At the bottom: Mexicans and Dominicans, who are brought into the U.S. for $50 to $1,000. "It's a sliding scale depending on how far you travel and how familiar...