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Wednesday, September 14, 1994
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Population plan adopted
Vatican gives in approves blueprint for the first time
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — With the Vatican offering some support for the first time, some 180 nations adopted a 20-year blueprint yesterday for slowing the world's population explosion. Now, it's up to individual nations to come up with the money to put it into action.
Unlike past U.N. population conferences, the 1994 forum focused not only on birth control but on two concepts the Vatican supports for slowing population growth — economic development and a commitment to
giving women more power over their lives.
Research has shown that educated women have fewer children.
The Vatican's partial support for the U.N. plan surprised many delegates. The Holy See rejected the final documents at the 1974 and 1984 U.N. population conferences.
Dr. Nafs Sadik, the conference secretary-general, said the Program of Action "when implemented over the coming few decades...will bring hundreds of millions of women into the mainstream of economic and political life in their countries."
Chief U.S. delegate Timothy Wirth said "a spirit of Cairo" emerged during the nine-day conference that recognized for the first time the need for a comprehensive approach to controlling rapid population growth.
"I think it was a remarkable agreement and an extraordinary consensus," he said.
Nevertheless, funding remains a major challenge. Delegates set a target of $17 billion a year by the year 2000—one-third to come from developed countries and two-thirds from developing nations.
Current spending is less than $6 billion a year, and development experts and delegates said it would be difficult to reach that target. African countries have already said it's impossible to pay two-thirds of the cost.
The Program of Action will be submitted next month to the U.N. General Assembly for approval. It is not legally binding on any nation, but it does carry "moral weight" and gives new ammunition to politicians and private groups lobbying for implementation.
Remains from Korean War costly
PANMUNJOM, Korea — On a September day about a year ago, a U.S. Army officer pushed a briefcase crammed with $897,000 across a green negotiating table in this truce village that straddles the border of North and South Korea.
The Associated Press
A North Korean People's Army officer opened it and seemed astonished at the wads of large bills. He then suspiciously examined the money, wondering if it might be counterfeit,
according to a U.S. official.
This was how the U.S. Army and U.N. Command in South Korea settled accounts with North Korea for delivering the remains of 46 Americans and other U.N. servicemen lost since the 1950-53 Korean War.
The U.S. Army made clear to the North Korean Army that they did not regard the first payment — an average of $19,500 per set of remains — as the set price for future exchanges, said an official.
The U.S. Army and U.N. Command want to limit compensation to two or three thousand dollars per set of remains, especially since only one set of remains has been positively identified, and some of the remains included animal bones.
A U.S. Defense Department official told The Associated Press yesterday that the North Koreans provided them with an itemized bill for expenses, and the U.S. wanted to make a gesture of trust by paying the bill.
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