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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, April 28, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. April 28,1987 the stars and stripes Page . Report warns of global crises environmental trends radically altering planet. Washington not the worldly faint interlocking crises of the environment and the Economy thai threaten the future of humanity a United nations commission warns. The world commission on Environ ment and development has concluded sustainable human Progress can be achieved Only through a system or inter National cooperation that treats Environ mental Protection and economic growth As inseparable. The report which Wai made Public i London on monday warns of a series of environment trends that threaten to radically alter the planet and Many of in species including people. Among the trends Are the alteration of the Earth s atmosphere by the burning of Fossil fuels the destruction of the protective Ozone layer by manmade chemicals the destruction of tropical forests the activating extinction of Plant and animal Spe cies the spread of deserts the acid poisoning of lakes and forests and the unification of air soil and water these trends can be reversed but Only by a concerted Effort to solve the related problems of poverty hunger rapid population growth the excessive outlays on arms and the inequitable distribution of wealth that afflicts much of the world particularly the developing countries the report slated. The report prepared by 21 comm liners who conducted Public hearings on five continents is the first major International report on. The global Environ ment to Deal with economic development As an essential ingredient for the salvation of the Earth s biological sup port systems. Because of this dimension the reports Likely to achieve broader acceptance than previous warnings about the global environment such As the club of Rome s report called limit to growth and the metro areas with highest Ozone Levels 20. Boiton Lawrence Stem mass. 8. Providence . 3. Greater Connecticut 4, new York new Jenny Connecticut s. San Diego 19. Beaumont port Arthur Tex. Hartford mid letdown new Britain new Haven Markten. New London Norwich Conn. Springfield mass. Chicago Tribuna Era primer source . Environmental Protection Agency global 2000 report issued by the .government during the Carter administration. Those influential but widely criticized reports raised alarms but did not offer specific solutions that considered economic needs. The chairman of the commission Gro Harlem Brundtland the prime minister of Norway was scheduled to arrive i Washington on tuesday to present the report to president . Alan Hill chairman of the White House Council on environmental Quality which is coordinating the administration s review of the report said in a Tele phone interview that there arc themes in that report we Are very supportive of and there Are themes thai we Don t agree  of the things the administration is not enamoured with he said Lith report s conclusion that there must be a Transfer of resources from the wealth Industrial countries to the poorer devel Oping nations. What we do see As important i the message that economic growth and development will help solve environmental problems Hill said. The . Member of the commission the former environmental Protection Agency administrator William a Ruckelshaus said the report s Central message was that economic growth an economic development Are necessary for solving global Environ Mcneal problems. The general Assembly created the commission in 1984, the report said when the Century began neither human numbers nor technology had the Power radically to alter planetary systems. As the Century closes not Only do vastly increased human numbers and their activities have that Power but major unintended change Are occurring in the Almos Phene in soils in Waters among plants and animals and in the relationships among All of these. The rate of change is outstripping the ability of scientific disciplines and our current capabilities to assess and advise. It is frustrating the attempts of political and economic institutions which evolved in a different more1 fragmented world to adopt and  the recent famine in Africa illustrate the ways economics and ecology can interact destructively and trip into disaster the report said. Triggered by drought its real causes lie deeper the report said they Are to be found in part in National policies that gave too Little attention too late to the needs of Small Holder agriculture and tothe threats posed by rapidly rising populations. Their roots extend also to global economic system that lakes More out of a poor continent than it puts  new yorkers Mark Warsaw ghetto uprising new York up More than  people at tended a solemn candlelight ceremony sunday Mark ing the 44th Ann venary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in which jewish resistance lighten battled the nazis in the polish  service held at the Felt forum a Large concert Hall in Manhattan also marked Yam Nashoa or Hole Caust remembrance Day commemorating the nazi extermination of 6 million jews during world War  have to every year Mark the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising because it will allow us All Over the world to say this must never happen again mayor Edward Koch said in remarks before the ceremony. Interior Secretary Donald Hodet sen. Alfonse d Amato. A new York Republican and israeli Ambas Sador Meir Rosenne also attended the candlelight Cere Mony which was interspersed with prayers and  Reagan sent a letter of Solidarity to those attending the afternoon  Warsaw ghetto uprising was an armed organized act of resistance by jews who had been herded into a sealed Ort enclave of the polish capital to Avail deportation to the Treblinka extermination  revolt lasted from april 19, the first Day of passover until it was crushed by nazi troops four weeks later on May 16. A number of holocaust survivors were among the6,000 people who filled the forum for the service. Even being an old lady of 74,1 saw too much and went through too much said or. Hadassah. Rosen Saft who survived the Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen concentration Camps in Germany i lost my parents my first husband my sister and a child of five years a Little boy and my. Brother was killed by the germans because he was a member of the underground she  said she and thous was of others travelled a Day and a night by cattle train from Sosnow Cic Poland to the German death Camps where she remained from August 1943 until she was liberated aprilis 1945, "1 was hoping we All dreamed there will be a Bette world and that people have teamed a tragic lesson she said. Roberts unfazed Bakker could lose License to preach by disapproval Orchard Park . A Oral Roberts the television evangelist who claimed that god will Call me Home unless he raised $8 million for medical missionaries says he is not unduly both ered by the criticism he received for his fund raising technique however badly 1 took that in the be ginning i m taking it great right now Roberts told about 300 ministers and on lookers during a service at the full gos Pel Tabernacle. Roberts said god has helped him to real ize that persecution is pan of salvation. He said the persecution came when he was criticized for saying that god told him he would die unless he raised the Money by March 31. Me denied that be deliberately used the lactic As a Way to Call attention to himself. Fort Mill . Lvpl the  Falwell the moral majority founder who recently took control of the it religious Empire sunday said that television evangelist Jim Batter will lose Bis License 10 preach if the allegations that he had homosexual relationships Are True. Falwell said pal official Are taking seriously the accusations made by rival minister John Ankerberg that Bakke engaged in homosexual activities used prostitutes and condoned wife swapping among members of his ministry. Reverend Ankerberg is a highly respected Church Leader in America and we do take seriously what he s saying Falwell said in an interview on face the nation on lbs to. Ankerberg based in Chattanooga,tenn., is one of three evangelists whose accusations of sexual misconduct led Bakker to resign his pal television ministry March 19. He made the new allegations Friday night in an interview wit talk show Host Larry King. In another development Newsweek Magazine said the internal Revenue service is investigating whether bonuses paid by pal id High level employees exceeded the reasonable pay standards required of tax exempt organizations. The Charlotte . Observer has re ported that the Baskera received $1.6 million from the pal last year and total of $4.8 million since 1984. Falwell said the assemblies of go has a restoration process for dealing with certain sins. He said homosexuality is not one of those sins and Bakker would be Perma Huntly forbidden to preach if the allegations Are True. The pal Board is expected to meet tuesday and Falwell said officials will reveal details on hush Money paid to for Mer Church Secretary Jessica Hahn with whom Bakker had the sexual encounter which prompted his resignation. Meanwhile to evangelist Jimmy swagman. Who criticized pal As a can cer when the sex scandal Wai disclosed defended Ankerberg and his allegations. I do not believe he would make these charges unless he had subset aimed proof and 1 have seen some of the proof myself said Swaggart also appearing on face the  "1 do believe that some of the allegations Are  Swaggirt said one or two ministers in his organization have engaged in Adul Tery but that he and his wife have not  
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