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Hard pressed world leaders gather for Earth Summit
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Leaders of a world low on
water, high on carbon dioxide and growing less green by
the day opened a week-long summit today to answer a
basic question: Are we better off now than five years ago?
The official answers being debated at the U.N.
Earth Summit were not encouraging — a choice be
tween “worse” and "not much better.”
“Our task for the coming days must be to chart the
course for the years to come,” Vice President A1 Gore
said as he welcomed representatives from 170 nations
to New York to review progress on the environment
and Third World development since the 1992 Earth
Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
The conference chairman, Razali Ismail, said
bluntly that progress has been “paltry.”
“We face a major recession. Not economic, but a
recession of spirit,” the Malaysian diplomat said. “We con
tinue to consume resources, pollute, spread and entrench
poverty as though we are the last generation on Earth.”
Many delegates hoped the United States, the
world’s No. 1 polluter, would take the lead in setting
clean-up goals, particularly on the tough issue of glob
al warming. But it was Germany’s Helmut Kohl who
promised an action plan for “Earth Summit Plus 5.”
The German chancellor was joining with Brazil,
South Africa and Singapore to draft a joint plan for
adoption by the U.N. session “to achieve concrete
progress on key issues.” The centerpiece was under
stood to be a proposal for a new World Environment
Organization.
Kohl, Japan’s Ryutaro Hashimoto, Britain’s Tony Blair
and France’s Jacques Chirac, all fresh from the Denver
summit with President Clinton, topped today’s lineup of
U.N. speakers, leading off a week-long marathon of five-
minute addresses. Clinton speaks Thursday.
Those coming from Denver can act as “catalysts” in
breaking through negotiating logjams over the docu
ments to be approved
here, said summit chair
man Razali, the U.N. Gen
eral Assembly president.
“I hope the political
leaders will come to the
rescue,” he said.
In 1992 in Rio, govern
ments endorsed the goal
of “sustainable develop
ment” — developing the
global economy to bene
fit all while protecting the environment.
That summit was historic, but the steps it agreed on
were mostly voluntary — in reducing such "greet
house gases” as carbon dioxide, for example, to com
bat global warming, and in better preserving foresti
The record since then is spurring calls fortoughe
mandatory actions.
Carbon emissions have actually increased-i
the United States by more than 13 percent. Fres!
water is increasingly scarce. Forest is being lost
a rate of one Iowa — 55,000 square miles — pc
year. On the development side, the numberof'al
solute” poor — people living on less than $1 ad®
— has edged above 1.1 billion.
In closed-door, pre-summit talks, diplomatsdt
bated what conclusion to reach in the politic!;
statement that will end the summit: Is theemi
ronmental outlook “worse" than five years ago,®
“not much better"?
Shabazz dies of bum complications
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NEWYORK (AP) — Betty Shabazz, who wimessed the
assassination of her husband, Malcolm X, and became a
civil rights figure herself, died Monday of burns suffered in
a fire allegedly set by her 12-year-old grandson. She was 61.
Shabazz suffered third-degree burns over 80 percent
of her body in the June 1 blaze at her Yonkers apart
ment. She had been in extremely critical condition
since the day of the fire, and underwent five operations
to replace burned tissue with artificial skin.
“My father lived strong, mother did honorably,” At-
tallah Shabazz, the oldest of the couple’s six daughters,
told reporters outside Jacobi Medical Center. “Now we
must adapt to living a life without parents.”
Along with Coretta Scott King and Myrlie Evers-
Williams — whose husbands were also assassinated
during the civil rights movement — Shabazz emerged
as a powerful symbol in her own right.
“Like her husband before her, Betty Shabazz has be
come a tragic American figure, and like him, she will be
remembered not for her death but for the principled
life she lived and the tower of strength she became,”
said Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.
Said King: “The nation has lost a committed civil and hu
man rights activist whose life and contributions have made
a significant difference.... I will miss her greatly.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was a frequent visitor to
the family at the hospital, remembered Shabazz as a
“champion of solid dignity and quiet strength.”
“She leaves today the legacy of one who epitomized
hope and healing,” he said, “and the burden is upon us
to keep fighting the tragic recycling of violence.”
In 1965, pregnant with twins, she was in the audi
ence at Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom with her four chil
dren when gunmen pumped 16 shots into her husband
as he preached on stage.
“Sister Betty came through the people, herself a
nurse, and people recognizing her moved back; she fell
on her knees looking down on his bare, bullet-pocked
chest, sobbing, ‘They killed him!”’ Alex Haley wrote in
“The Autobiography of Malcolm X.”
Shabazz went on to become a university adminis
trator and spokeswoman for civil rights.
She made headlines in recent years by accusing Na
tion of Islam leader Louis FarralTian of orchestrating
the assassination. She later reconciled with him, and
defended her daughter Qubilah Shabazz against
charges that she plotted a revenge attack on Farrakhan.
It was Qubilah’s son who was arrested in the fire.
Malcolm Shabazz was said to be unhappy that he
had been sent to live with his grandmother and
wanted to return to his mother in Texas. He is being
held in juvenile custody.
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