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...forgiven in return for preserves in Costa Rica and elsewhere. The sticking point: Who will bear the cost of the debt relief? So far, private environmental groups have bought small amounts of Third World debt securities from commercial lenders, but the governments of the developed nations will have to put in more money if the debt-for-nature concept is to pick up momentum...
Pollution protest. Rome's nature lovers plan to put their bodies on the line April 21 when they stage a sit-down, maybe even a lie-in, along one of the Italian capital's traffic-choked central thoroughfares. Survivors can attend a concert in a nearby piazza...
...McGee's downtrodden Tenth District, the average annual income is $5,500. "You look at our community and you see a disaster," says Howard Fuller, director of health and human services for Milwaukee County. "Then you look at other parts of the community and you see advancement. You put these two things together and it explodes...
Politics is often called the art of the possible. But Israel is rapidly transforming politics into the art of the improbable -- if not the downright ridiculous. Ever since the collapse of Israel's coalition government on March 15, Labor leader Shimon Peres has been scrambling to put together a new government without his party's nemesis, the conservative Likud bloc. Early last week Peres appeared to have sewn up 61 of the Knesset's 120 votes. But on Wednesday two Deputies of the religious party Agudat Yisrael backed out of a signed agreement, leaving Peres two votes short...
...words caused consternation in Warsaw, particularly within the Solidarity government Walesa helped create. "He seems prepared to put everything we have achieved this year at risk to further his personal ambitions," said a Cabinet member. Echoed Dariusz Fikus, editor in chief of the government daily Rzeczpospolita: "Preservation of the existing order for as long as possible is in the best interests of the country. New elections mean destabilization and another six months wasted...