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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 6, 1990
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Bush addresses greenhouse issue
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush called yesterday for balancing economic and environmental concerns when dealing with global warming, prompting environmentalists to accuse him of siding with industry and avoiding a pressing world problem.
Bush, speaking to an international conference on the threat of a world greenhouse effect, said "our policies must be consistent with economic growth." And he suggested that in some areas of the debate "politics and opinion have outpaced the science.
Environmentalists at the conference suggested the problem was not
President sides with industry some environmentalists say
scientific but a lack of U.S. leadership in dealing with the issue. One participant called Bush's comments a gross disappointment.
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Albert Gore Jr., D-Tenn., a frequent critic of Bush's stand on global warming, said that the president was moving as slowly as molasses on the issue when many scientists, already were convinced that decisive action was needed.
But the president, addressing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that nations must strike a bargain between curbing pollution causing a warming of the earth and maintaining economic growth.
Arguing that key scientific questions have yet to be answered, Bush suggested that it was too early to unleash an action plan aimed at specific pollution reductions as many
environmentalists, and some European countries, have said is required.
Later at the White House, prestennial spokesman Marlin Fitwater said that Bush did not believe it was time for a call to arms on the global warming issue but time for a call to research.
"Our goal continues to be matching policy commitments to emerging scientific knowledge," Bush said, "and a reconciling of environmental protection to the continued benefits of economic development."
The remarks brought a subdued reaction from many of the participants at the international conference sponsored by the United Nations and attended by representatives from some 60 countries.
Israel demands that Egypt punish bus attackers
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir demanded yesterday that Egypt track down and punish those responsible for a desert bus attack in which nine people were killed, and Israelis mourned their dead with silence and screams of anguish.
The Associated Press
Israeli leaders said the latest Middle East peace efforts should not be thwarted by public outrage about Sunday's attack, the worst on Israelis in Egypt since the two countries signed a peace treaty in 1979.
Newspaper editorials noted, however, that the incident almost certainly would boost support for hard-line views toward Arabs.
Israel civilians flown home by military jet from Egypt's capital gave harrowing accounts of the several minutes during which two gunmen on a desert road raked their bus with gunfire and hurled greenades inside.
"Everyone saw his death," said Professor Yigal Barak, a passenger who was unhurt. "There was nobody who could protect us, nobody carried any burden."
"I felt like a Jew who is facing the Nazis," said Judith Benjamini, 63, of Tel Aviv, describing the death of her 72-year-old husband, Ishachar.
All of the dead were Israelis, and 21 people were wounded, including an Egyptian tour guide.
In Washington, the State Department called the
attack an outrageous act designed to halt efforts toward reconciliation and dialogue between Arabs and Israelis.
President Bush called Shamir to express his sorrow, and Secretary of State James A. Baker III welcomed the message in calls to the Israel and Egyptian forces for help in the department spokesman Margaret Tuweller said.
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Shamir told Parliament, "Our first demand from Egyptian leaders is to find the perpetrators of the crime and bring them to speedy trial and punish them severely."
He said Israel go ahead with its peace initiative calling for Palestinian elections but also would try to liquidate blood-thirsty terrorism.
AOUN'S TAKKS ADVANCE: Gen. Michel Aoun's tanks broke into a stronghold of his Christian militia rivals yesterday, after a week of battle, and advanced toward the command post of Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geaaz, police said.
They said the tanks, with cannons blazing, drove to within 300 yards of the Kassardjian militia base in Ein Rummahnade, a working-class district of Christian east Beirut.
Witnesses in hills above the Christian sector, reached by telephone from Cyprus, reported heavy fighting in Ein Rummaneh where the Karantina quarter, where Gengea has his headquarters.
Shells hit hospitals, schools and churches. The shells set fuel tanks, power plants, factories and apartment houses ablaze.
Fires burned out of control because pumping stations were knocked out and no water was available to fight them.
TAX DEBATE HEATS UP? Two of the foremost experts on Social Security offered conflicting advice as Congress opened hearing yesterdays on the capital's hottest domestic topic of the year; whether to cut the taxes that finance the pension system.
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has proposed a tax reduction of up to $300 a year for higher-income workers to prevent the government from using surplus Social Security taxes to pay for other federal programs and making the government deficit appear smaller than it is. The Bush administration vigorously opposes the cut as a threat to Social Security benefits and an opening for increases in other taxes.
Robert J. Myers, who helped create the system in 1934 and was its chief actuary for 23 years, has endorsed the reduction. "This approach is fiscally and economically sound, as well as intellectually honest in giving the public a clear understanding of the costs of the program and of the general budget situation of the government," he says.
OFFICIAL WONT TESTIFY: A former official of the Reagan administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development refused to testify yesterday before a congressional panel that resumed its hearings on the HUD scandals.
James Hamernick, former director of HUD's office of insured multi-family housing development, became the fifth former housing official from the Reagan administration, including former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce, to refuse to testify on the ground of self-incrimination.
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