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...danger is that these agreements will be vague and unenforceable, a cosmetic solution not backed by political will. If so, much of the blame will rest with the U.S. In a series of pre-summit meetings at which agreements are being negotiated, American delegates have too often been naysayers, not leaders. A report released this month summing up the Administration's official attitude toward the issues has been widely criticized as being long on statistics but short on solutions. The paper gives little attention to the Rio summit's central theme: the need for sustainable development in which economic growth...
...real competitive disadvantage could come from failing to protect the environment. Already Japan is developing a 100-year plan to capitalize on environmental concerns by designing "green" technologies, and European nations are moving in the same direction. Says one observer at the pre-summit meeting now being held at the U.N.: "Once again the U.S. is going to be left behind in the dust of a Honda...
...week began, some diplomats were calling it the Big Pre-Summit Stall. Endgame, however, might have been a more accurate term. In a manner familiar to all negotiators who have ever raced a deadline, Soviet and American negotiators sought to extract the last possible concession before turning over a nuclear-weapons agreement for their chiefs, George Bush and Mikhail ; Gorbachev, to announce with a flourish at their summit meeting next week. But by the time Secretary of State James Baker left Moscow on Saturday, after four days of talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and a five-hour visit...
...gunmen is Hassan Izz-al-Din, a Lebanese who is believed to have been directly involved in the killing of U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985. Said Secretary of State George Shultz, speaking in Helsinki en route to pre-summit meetings in Moscow: "I don't think ((releasing the hijackers)) is a proper thing to do." But he declined to "second-guess" Algeria. As for the Algerians, Interior Minister Hadi al- Khaderi, who oversaw the negotiations, explained his government's decision in its starkest terms: "It was a question of saving human...
...main question surrounding Monday's interview was the degree to which American TV was being manipulated. All three networks, as well as CNN, had sought a pre-summit interview with Gorbachev, but the Soviets gave the exclusive nod to NBC. CBS executives complained that their network was being punished for aggressive coverage of the war in Afghanistan and Dan Rather's combative questioning of Gorbachev in Paris two years ago. NBC executives preferred to see their coup as the fruit of a 2 1/2-year negotiating campaign by veteran NBC News Executive Gordon Manning...