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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 8, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 3earth Summit tackles cleanup Cost Rio de Janeiro Brazil a delegates at the Earth Summit Turnea sunday to one of the trickiest issues at the global gathering who will pay for cleaning up the environment and protecting it. The Issue underlies nearly All others at the Summit and is partly responsible for the . Refusal to sign a treaty to protect animal and Plant species. The United states has come under harsh criticism for its stance. Officials said last week that Japan and the 12-member european Community would sign the biodiversity convention a Centrepiece of the Summit. President Bush has adamantly opposed the treaty because the administration claims it would Hurt . Industry. At least 116 Heads of state including Bush Are expected in Rio on Friday for two Days of talks aimed at making the environment a Central concern of the Post cold War Agenda. But delegates Are already Busy crafting agreements. After a weekend break formal Summit sessions were to resume today with attention shifting to Money who will pay for environmental Protection and cleanup and who will decide How the Money is to be spent. Pre Summit negotiations focused on who would foot the cleanup Bill. The summits chief coordinator Maurice Strong of Canada said the Cost could top $125 billion a year. Developing nations say they Are willing to protect their resources if the Rich nations Bush major differ on biological treaty Camp David my. Ufi president Bush and British prime minister John major sought to minimize their differences sunday Over a biological treaty being signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro with the administration opposing it and the British favouring it. Appearing at a Brief news conference after their one Day meeting Bush said he would not be a a apologetics for refusing to sign the treaty protecting the worlds delicate species and said the United states was a world Leader in environmental Protection. The president also took the Opportunity to lash out at the person who leaked a memo sent to him by William Reilly who is heading the . Delegation to the Earth Summit in which Reilly urged the administration to join a modified biodiversity treaty. Bush called the act a a insidious and a a mischievous and said the person who released the unauthorized letter would be fired if discovered. Some insiders contend that the memo May have been leaked by vice president Dan Quayle a office. Bush said he had a apologized Quot to Reilly for the embarrassment. Bush will deliver a seven minute speech to the Earth Summit after he arrives on thursday. The informal meeting Between Bush and major marked the first time the two had met since major was re elected in april. Appearing in the hazy afternoon Sunshine with their wives in the wings the two said they discussed a Host of other issues including the weekend elections in Czechoslovakia the russian Aid package and Bush s Domestic travails. Bush acknowledged that he Ami major did discuss the emergence of Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot. �?o1 cannot Tell a lie Quot Bush said. Quot his name came  but Bush would not discuss the nature of the Exchange except to say he was a confident i la win Quot in the fall contest. Are willing to pay for it. They also want More Aid to help conquer poverty which they argue is at the Root of environmental degradation. The United states and other industrialized nations however Are strapped by tight budgets and Are unwilling to give up control Over what funds they do provide. William k. Reilly the chief . Delegate and head of the environmental Protection Agency said last week that Bush a offer to contribute $150 million to an International Forest Protection fund a is All we have in a year of budget  blame for fouling the environment has focused on the United states which produces a Quarter of the worlds Carbon dioxide the main Gas blamed for global warming. It has also been severely criticized for refusing to sign the biodiversity treaty. Russell Mittermeier the president of conservation International and an expert that protecting create jobs not on biodiversity argued plants and animals will eliminate them. A biodiversity is the new Silicon  he said referring to the Hub of the . Computer Industry in Northern California. A a the same concerns the japanese have on the details apply to the other industrialized nations As Well a he said. A if they sign there a no question the . Should be  desperate Diana reportedly tried suicide 5 times London up a the Princess of Wales in despair Over her marriage to Prince Charles made five attempts at suicide and has suffered from depression linked illnesses throughout her 10-year marriage the sunday times reported. A Book serialized in the newspaper cited a a series of on the record interviews with Diana a close friends who detailed the a a shame of her marriage to the heir to the British throne. The Story came three Days after the daily mail reported that a different Book said Diana took an overdose of pills six years ago. Diana believes she will never be Queen the times said in a front Page article. The Book paints a picture of a Princess who a has been deeply unhappy for most of her married life a the times Saick a to this Day she suffers and is being treated by leading experts from a potentially fatal nervous disorder called bulimia Nerosa where the patient starves and then eats in binges followed by enforced  the Book features private photographs fueling speculation that the Princess cooperated with the biography by allowing friends or family to Tell her Story. Buckingham Palace has declined to comment. A in the first years of their married life Diana made several suicide bids and numerous threats a author Andrew Morton wrote in Diana her True Story. The allegations come amid intense ongoing speculation in the British popular press about the state of the Royal couples marriage. Last month the two took separate vacations and appeared Distant at a joint appearance at the Seville expo �?T92 exhibition. Morton reported that Diana told friends the suicide attempts were a desperate cries for help. 1 just needed time to adjust to my new  a one minute i was a nobody the next minute 1 was Princess of Wales Mother Media toy member of this family and it was just too much for one person to handle a she reportedly told friends. The Book said the Princess received extensive medical treatment for bulimia and was seen by several psychologists and psychotherapists about her varied problems. The Princess marriage to Charles was in serious difficulty As Early As january 1982, when the Princess three months pregnant with Prince William first attempted suicide Morton said. A her relationship with Charles was rapidly unravelling though they had been married less than six months. She was struggling desperately to Accomma tue us Namh. To Tam drive blk soy unt Iii we Hart she Cailup Isis ssh i0gi7�ir/�s�, Nhu Fil herself _ in stars /?-.�?� a press Quot a. I i British newspapers play up the stories that Diana attempted suicide because of her troubled marriage. Date herself to her new position and new family a Morton wrote. The Princess was a suffering dreadfully from morning sickness and from a dawning realization that another woman Camilla Parker Bowles meant More to her husband than she did Quot Morton said. After she unsuccessfully a pleaded cajoled and quarrelled violently with her husband to help her Cope with the pressures of Royal life Morton wrote Diana threatened suicide. When a Charles accused her of crying Wolf and prepared to go Riding a Morton said the Princess threw herself Down a staircase sustaining severe bruising. A doctor was called but Charles a dismissed her plight and carried on with his plan to go Riding a Morton said. After Prince Williams birth Diana continued to suffer from bulimia Morton claimed As Well As Post Natal depression and increasing jealousy of her husbands relationship with Parker Bowles a married woman and Long standing confidant of the Prince. Picture shows weary bearded German hostage Beirut Lebanon apr a newspaper sunday released the photograph of a German hostage w Hose kidnappers say will go free if the captors receive a Concrete assurances about two shiite Muslim Brothers jailed in Germany. Al Nahar received the instant color photograph of Heinrich Striebig on saturday along with a statement from the self styled holy warriors for Freedom. The same statement was delivered to a Western news Agency without a photograph. The picture showed Striebig 51, from the Waist up dressed in a White sleeveless to shirt. He looked Haggard and had a Bushy Beard. It was impossible to Tell when the picture was taken but it was similar to one released last july. Striebig was kidnapped with fellow German Thomas Kemptner 30, in South Lebanon on May 16, 1989. They were on assignment for a German Relief organization. They Are the last Western hostages held in Lebanon. Panamanian Jet carrying 47 disappears during storm Bogota Colombia apr a panamanian Airliner in route to Colombia with 47 people on Board vanished in a storm airline authorities announced sunday. The Boeing 737 of the copa airline was scheduled to arrive saturday night in Cali Colombia. The Airliner was carrying 40 passengers and a Crew of seven. The director of operations at Bogota Sel Dorado Airport Carlos Idomenico said that colombian panamanian and . Ships and planes were searching Lor the missing aircraft. He said the plane was flying through a storm when it disappeared. The Jet was believed to have gone Dow n in the Jungle area along the Border Between Panama and Colombia or in the Pacific Ocean Striebig  
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