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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, April 26, 1992

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 26, 1992 Cousteau presses Bush to attend Earth Summit Washington apr oceanographer Jacques Cousteau on Friday urged president Bush to attend the Earth Summit in Brazil. He also said Bush deserves an a above average a environmental Grade especially for promoting family planning abroad. Bush aides said the president still has not formally committed to attend the International environmental Summit in Rio de Janerio in june and was waiting for the outcome of this weeks pre Summit negotiations on How to Deal with global warming. A we discussed the importance of Rio a Cousteau told reporters outside the White House. A a it a very important that Rio be a Success a he said adding that it is the first such massive conference of its kind with dozens of world leaders expected to attend. Noting the election year sensitivity of Bush a decision Cousteau said the president did not indicate whether he would go. The presidents advisers Are divided Over what the . Position should be toward making specific commitments on stemming emissions that cause global warming. Global warming is the Centrepiece of an environmental pact being negotiated by countries participating in the Summit. Cousteau said Bush has a done an above average jobs in environmental affairs. He cited . Participation in International family planning efforts. A a he a done a number of things that nobody realizes a because family planning is linked to the politically Touchy question of abortion in the United states he said. The United states leads All other nations in family planning contributions to third world countries spending $349 million in fiscal year 1991, said Jerry Lipson spokesman for the Agency for International development which administers the state departments family planning efforts. More than 100 countries worldwide Are recipients of the . Assistance which includes counselling condoms birth control pills ids and educational efforts including family planning videotapes featuring popular recording artists Lipson said. A the Only thing we do not do is support abortion or forced sterilization a Lipson said. Meanwhile after months of internal wrangling the Bush administration has decided that the United states can come close to stabilizing greenhouse Gas emissions by the year 2000, officials said Friday. The environmental Protection Agency and the Energy department Long at Odds Over the effect of current and planned . Efforts reached a Compromise with the White House earlier in the week said Eileen Claussen director of the Epars atmospheric programs office. The Compromise brought Praise from environmental activists. It also could Lead to increased . Flexibility in global warming negotiations preceding the Earth Summit. European nations have pressured for an International treaty to reduce gaseous emissions linked to global warming to 1990 Levels by the end of the Century. The consensus administration position says in effect that the clean air act and other actions in the works will put the United states within 5 percent of complying with that goal. A position paper detailing the Compromise was distributed by the state department to foreign embassies Friday. The last pre Summit negotiation session is in new York this week. Aides said president Bush was waiting until after that to decide whether to attend the International conference. Within the administration a faction led by the Energy department had held that complying with the european proposal would impose costly draconian Mea Buffalo police haul away 71 protesting at abortion clinic Buffalo . Up police on Friday arrested 71 anti abortion activists who tried to Block a downtown clinic in the fifth Day of their hit and run Campaign. Police said about 100 members of operation Rescue moved in on the gyn women services clinic. Some blocked the opening in police barricades to the clinic and were hauled away. Those arrested were charged with obstructing governmental administration said chief of detectives Angelo Alessandra. In contrast to wednesdays mass arrests at a clinic in the suburb of Amherst Only one protester had to be carried off by police he said. Marilyn Buchan executive director of the clinic said operation Rescue would not shut her facility Down. A it will never happen. We will never close and we Are going to continue offering services tomorrow next week and next year and they be got a Long haul a she said at an Impromptu news conference at the front doors of the clinic surrounded by cheering abortion rights advocates. Buchan praised Buffalo police who state attorney general Robert Abrams had said might a take their Cue from their mayor a James Griffin a self proclaimed operation Rescue supporter. A in the past in be had some criticism of the department a Buchan said. A a but these people have acted As professionals All week. They re putting their lives and their time on the line Here i am very proud of the police department Here in the City of Buffalo. A in another incident two abortion opponents were arrested on trespassing charges when they refused to leave the property of the Sweet Home United methodist Church in Amherst said Amherst police capt. Robert Mitchell. The Church is near the abortion clinic where hundreds of demonstrators were arrested wednesday along with five journalists. Karen Welch director of the new York civil liberties unions Western Region asked for an investigation of the arrests. She said some of the journalists were not warned they would be arrested if they went into the Street with the demonstrators. Boy missing 11 months found dead new Brunswick . Apr a 5-year-old boy whose disappearance 11 months ago triggered a nationwide search was slain prosecutors said in announcing the discovery of his remains. The Skull and other skeletal remains of Timothy Wiltsey were found thursday in a swampy area of an Industrial Park in Edison ., prosecutor Robert Gluck of Middlesex county said Friday. The Skull was identified through dental records. Timothy smother Michelle Lodzinski said he disappeared May 25 while the two were at a carnival in say Reville . Gluck said he  speculate about suspects but said authorities weren to ruling out the 24-year-old Mother. A nobody has corroborated Michelle Lodzinski a Story a he said. Lodzinski remained in her Home Friday. Her Mother Alice Lodzinski said she was too distraught to comment. Despite Reward offers searches by police and volunteers fliers distributed nationwide a report on a television crime show and photos on milk Cartons investigators had few clues about the child a whereabouts. A sneaker with the same teenage mutant ninja turtles design Timothy was wearing when last seen was found in october in a Remote part of the Industrial Park. But a search of the area yielded no clues. After months without leads investigators returned to the Park. On thursday they found the Skull partially submerged in the Creek Gluck said. Michelle Lodzinski was questioned thursday night at Sayreville police Headquarters said detective Kenneth Kelly. He  say  stars and stripes a Page 7 a oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and president Bush Chat in the White House Rose Garden. Sures on . Industry. The Epa meanwhile has contended that the current and proposed Steps would bring the United states close to meeting the european goal without incurring excessive costs. Claussen said the Compromise reflects a melding of scientific data from the opposing viewpoints. A it is really significant that we were Able to sit Down As an administration and work out the kinds of reductions that can be achieved from planned and existing administration programs. It Hasni to been easy to get Here a she said. U.s.19 people Are arrested in fake credit card ring from wire reports Washington a Federal authorities have broken up a counterfeit credit card ring that stretched from the District of Columbia to Hong Kong the . Secret service said Friday. Nineteen people were arrested in Hong Kong after a seven month investigation of a group that defrauded people of More than $2.3 million worldwide. The arrested included two residents of the Washington area. The investigation began in september 1991, after the secret service received information that phony credit cards made in Hong King were being used in Washington according to an Agency statement. The numbers apparently were taken from the cards of unsuspecting patrons of chinese restaurants in the Washington area. Employees involved with the group gave the numbers to other ring members in Hong Kong the statement said. In March secret service agents and a Fairfax county va., police officer travelled to Hong Kong to help authorities there track Down members of the ring. As a result Hong Kong police arrested 19 people and seized 60 counterfeit credit cards and equipment used to manufacture them. In addition they confiscated 10 illegal firearms and $300,000 in counterfeit Hong Kong dollars.12 arrested in Brawl fori Lauderdale Fla. Twelve people were arrested including the Lead Singer of a band who yelled a let s tear this place apart a after fighting broke out at a popular club police said. Patrons fought threw bottles and bar stools and scuffled with officers who tried to Stop the violence Early thursday police said. About 30 officers were called to the Summers on the be h club where about 400 to 500 people were attending the concert  
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