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<text id=90TT1640>
<title>
June 25, 1990: American Notes:Ecology
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 25
American Notes
ECOLOGY
U-Turn on Ozone
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<body>
<p> White House chief of staff John Sununu infuriated
environmentalists last month when he blocked creation of a
special international fund to help developing countries reduce
their use of industrial gases that deplete the ozone layer.
Charging that a U.S. failure to support the fund would
undermine George Bush's vow to be the Environmental President,
Democratic Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee called the policy
"pigheaded and obstinate." He predicted that once the angry
reaction set in, Sununu would reverse himself.
</p>
<p> Last week Sununu did just that. He announced that the U.S.
would contribute $25 million to a $100 million World Bank fund
that will help underwrite the cost of
chlorofluorocarbon-abatement efforts in less developed nations.
Sununu claimed that the Administration now found itself able
to endorse the fund because financial safeguards that the
initial plan lacked have been put in place.
</p>
<p> But a White House official pooh-poohed Sununu's explanation
for the abrupt turnabout in policy as "a mere fig leaf." Said
he: "It became clear to us that almost everybody was unhappy."
</p>
</body>
</article>
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