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from 17 nations gathered for a
House conference on global
ivarming amid criticism Monday
from some participants and environ
mentalists that the Bush administra
tion isn’t dealing with the problem.
Senior administration officials
said the United States will call for in-
eased international research on
both the science of global warming
and the economic implications of the
greenhouse” effect when the two-
day conference begins Tuesday.
But as delegates arrived, environ
mentalists chastised President Bush
for not calling for specific actions to
ease the global warming problem,
including commitments to make spe
cific reductions in greenhouse pol
lutants.
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lobal warming conference sparks
riticism of Bush administration
to highlight concerns about global
warming, called the White House
conference an attempt by the admin
istration to shift the focus of the is
sue away from the need for pollut
ion controls to a debate over
economic considerations.
“It’s really a smoke screen for the
administration’s inaction on global
warming,” said Daniel Becker of the
Sierra Club. “We know enough now
to begin acting to curb global warm
ing today.”
Some conference participants also
expressed concern about the heavy
U.S. focus on more research.
“In spite of remaining uncertain
ties on some aspects of the issue, an
ef fective response policy must be es
tablished now, without any further
delay,” said a statement issued on be
half of the 12 nations attending
from the European Community.
Laurnes Jan Brinkhorst, director-
general for the environment of the
European Community’s Council of
Ministers, and Padraig Flynn, envi
ronmental minister of Ireland, said
there was an “urgent need for an ef
fective response policy” while addi
tional research is under way.
Senior administration officials
have reiterated in recent days that
Bush will offer no new policy propo
sals to curb the manmade pollution
that scientists agree is causing the
earth to warm.
Bush, in remarks that will open
the conference, was expected in
stead to focus on the need for addi
tional research to resolve both scien
tific uncertainties about global
warming and establish clearer esti
mates on economic costs.
The conference, which is being
held just days before Sunday’s cele-
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Court upholds
rule banning
school dances
PURDY, Mo. — The U.S. Su
preme Court on Monday let
stand a ban on school dances in
this Bible Belt town, prompting
an opponent to lament a victory
“for liars, cheats and hypocrites.”
Opponents said they now
hoped school officials would vol
untarily lift the rule.
The high court without com
ment rejected arguments that the
no-dance rule was religiously mo
tivated and violated the constitu
tionally required separation of
church and state. A federal ap
peals court iu September upheld
the ban.
“I’m disappointed by the rul
ing but I’m not surprised,” said
attorney William Fleischaker,
who represented 21 Purdy High
School students and their parents
who filed a lawsuit ip 1986 seek
ing to overturn the ‘bah in this
Ozarks town.
“We knew the odds against us
were pretty strong,” he said. “We
had hoped we could get the ear of
someone at the Supreme Court
and get them to review the situa
tion. Obviously, that didn’t hap
pen.”
No further legal appeals are
planned, Fleischaker said.
Country prepares for worst
Lithuanians ask Gorbachev
to discuss economic sanctions
MOSCOW (AP) — Lithuania on Monday asked Mik
hail S. Gorbachev to meet with the republic’s president
to provide details of Moscow’s threatened economic
sanctions so that Lithuanians can be prepared.
It would be Gorbachev’s first meeting with Lithua
nian President Vytautas Landsbergis, who was elected
after the republic declared itself independent March
11.
In a telegram to the Soviet president, Lithuanian
Prime Minister Kazimieras Prunskiene said Lithuania
wants to explain to its people just what difficulties they
might face if they ignore an ultimatum Gorbachev is
sued Friday.
He gave Lithuania 48 hours to rescind some of its
pro-independence laws or face a cutoff of products the
Kremlin supplies. Gorbachev did not say which items
would be stopped, hut Lithuania is dependent on the
Kremlin for such crucial supplies as oil, gas, machinery,
raw materials, chemicals and automobiles.
The deadline expired Sunday night with no visible
cut in deliveries.
Prunskiene’s telegram said broad economic sanctions
would damage the Soviet economy as well as Lithua
nia’s. She suggested the best way to clarify the threat
would be in a meeting in Moscow with a Lithuanian del
egation, headed by Landsbergis.
There was no immediate response from the Soviet
president.
Another Lithuanian leader was quoted as saying the
republic would be willing to pay hard currency for So
viet goods but would expect Moscow to do the same for
items Lithuania exports.
Vilnius Radio quoted Prunskiene as saying Lithua
nian leaders decided that “until we see definite physical
measures against Lithuania’s industry and economy, all
contractual obligations to the U.S.S.R. must continue to
be carried out by all our enterprises, so there should be
no pretext for possible disruption of supplies by the So
viet Union.”
The telegram was sent to Gorbachev after an emer
gency meeting of the Lithuanian Presidium — the lead
ership of the legislature — Monday afternoon.
Journalist Vilius Kavaliauskas, who spoke to a Presid
ium member after its meeting, said the leadership was
told the republic has just two weeks’ supply of natural
gas and six weeks’ supply of oil.
It has only enough newsprint to publish Lithuania’s
newspapers for four or five days, he said.
Lithuania receives all its oil and gas from the Soviet
Union at prices just a fraction of those on the world
market. I ne small Baltic republic has very little foreign
currency to buy fuel from the West.
Deputy Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas told Vil
nius Radio that “political decisions” about Gorbachev’s
ultimatum would be made Tuesday by Lithuania’s par
liament.
Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, was quiet Monday as
the predominantly Roman Catholic republic celebrated
the final day of a three-day Easter weekend. Most facto
ries and businesses were closed, according to a worker
in the information office of the Supreme Council.
Panel: joint missions to Mars too risky
Committee suggests coordinated but independent exploration
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joint missions to
Mars by the United States and the Soviet Union
are too risky now, a panel said Monday . It recom
mended instead that the two nations follow “a
graceful path” of coordinated but independent
exploration.
“The United States and USSR have no prior
experience with the degree of cooperation nec
essary to carry out a technical project of this com
plexity or magnitude,” a committee of the Na
tional Research Council said.
The committee said it was concerned “about
relying on the consistency of the relationship
over a period of a decade or more into the fu
ture.”
The panel’s report appeared to chill the idea
frequently expressed by many experts that Mars
would be explored jointly by the Soviets and
Americans, doing together w hat would be too ex
pensive for either nation to do alone.
The United States and the Soviets have coop
erated in space in the past, most notably in 1975
when three Apollo astronauts joined their space
craft with a Soviet Soyuz and exchanged bear
hugs in orbit with two cosmonauts.
1 he committee was commissioned by NASA to
look into undertaking missions with international
partners to use robots to gather rocks and soil
from Mars and bring them to Earth for analysis.
The committee concentrated its study on efforts
by the United States and the USSR because “they
are the only nations presently in a position to
take on the lead role in a major Mars program."
The Soviets have said they intend to explore
Mars with robotic rovers, space probes orbiting
overhead and by returned samples. A scenario
often mentioned is that one nation would build a
lander and a sample-return vehicle while the
other would develop a roving vehicle for collect
ing samples and analyzing them.
Detailed Mars investigations, before any
manned landing, would include robotic missions
at four to six selected sites over a number of
years. The committee said its recommended cau
tious approach “would allow a graceful path to
increasingly close levels of cooperation.”
The committee said it reached conclusions al
ter considering these three levels of U.S. partici
pation with the Soviets in a Mars venture:
— Each country conducting programs inde
pendently.
The cost would be too high, the returns would
be less than maximum, U.S. technology would
benefit greatly and there would be no additional
risk of transferring technology to the Soviets.
It would make no contribution to U.S.-USSR
experience in technical and social endeavors and
“it could also ignite a space competition similar to
the race to the moon,” the committee said.
— Split responsibilities and joint technical op
erations.
“A commitment by both nations to a fully co
operative ventuxe ... would have a greater, presu
mably positive' impact on U.S.-Soviet relations
than would options involving lesser degrees of
interactions and reliance,” the committee said.
Such a venture would allow 7 the nations to
share costs while increasing returns.
and to take advantage of the best of both na
tions’ space programs, such as the Soviets’ lead in
heavy-lift launch capability.
But a mission highly dependent on cooper
ative efforts would be a “potential hostage to po
litical events that might disrupt communications
and interaction between the two nations,” said
the committee.
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bration of Earth Day, fulfills a cam
paign promise Bush made to hold an
international conference on global
warming early in his presidency.
Representatives to the meeting
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Bush advisers said they hoped the
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