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the area as a contribution in this regard. Capuchin Father Jesus de la Torre, who toured his order's mission east of the Caroni in September, noted that "the garimpeiros thrive on the neglect of...
...The year began with Teddy Kennedy's nephew...
...It is possible in the last analysis that thousands of mining jobs and the potential increase to the nation's gold reserves will have to be sacrificed because the other tradeoffs are too high...
...You ain't seen nothin' yet...
...Senate...
...According to Azpurua, techniques that have been successfully employed in other parts of the world fail to grasp the Amazon's uniqueness...
...Protecting the nation's water and energy supply, its forest reserves, and freshwater fish, not to mention the global repercussions, cannot be denied and will have to come before all other considerations...
...Quonset persons were so dubbed by Christopher Reynolds, a Los Angeles Times writer who thought that the fiftieth anniversary of the Quonset should be celebrated somehow...
...and (b) he is no legal scholar and therefore (unlike Robert Bork) has left no paper trail of embarrassing legal theories...
...At any rate, this will be the scenario if the abortion struggle remains in the hands of the two parties currently in the field...
...But nobody believed him: not his enemies and not his friends...
...Supreme Court reverses that landmark abortion decision--a reversal made all the more likely by the elevation of Thomas to the Court...
...Even if suction pumps are replaced by the 'safer' technique of bulldozing, the tenuous organic substance of the soil will still be broken up...
...I wonder if it has soured them on sex as well...
...Prochoice extremists are satisfied with nothing other than abortion-ondemand...
...In very liberal states candidates will vie with one another to see who can give the most extreme expression of the prochoice faith...
...Everyone is convinced he is anti-Roe and that his vote on the Court will either create an anti-Roe majority or, more likely, add to one that already exists...
...The alternatives are clear: either the silent majority will assert itself under the leadership of moderates and find an abortion compromise...
...Luzardo argues that the Amazonian nations by themselves are not in a position to deal with the full array of ecological problems in the region, and that assistance from the developed nations is imperative...
...They were also able to get them to the places they were needed: Africa, the South Pacific, Newfoundland, the Philippines, 8 November 1991:633...
...they are both absolutists...
...He was named because he was a prolifer who has two attributes likely to get him through an essentially prochoice Senate: (a) he is an African-American, which made it difficult for Deep South Democrats to vote against him...
...One key cabinet member who has promoted gold mining concessions with Mitsubishi and other foreign interests claims that large capital is more ecologically conscious and uses more sophisticated equipment which is less damaging than that employed by small miners...
...In this great controversy there are three sets of rights to be considered: the right of the woman to choose, the right of the unborn to live, and the right of the nation to live in peace...
...The common denominators are sex and the U.S...
...If there were no abortion issue dividing the country, Thomas would have been confirmed by a lopsided majority, and Anita Hill would never have been forced into the national limelight...
...YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET THOMAS v. ROE he Anita Hill vs...
...They can no more compromise than could the slaveholders and the abolitionists, ffthe expanded abortion controversy is reduced to a battle between these two parties, American society will be torn to pieces...
...Luzardo, who is a member of the advisory commission for the Amazonian conference to be held in Brazil in July 1992, has advocated a "World Agreement for the Protection of the Amazon...
...It is the abortion/choice issue that made the nomination process such an emotionally charged affair...
...it advanced to Senator Robb and the beauty queen (plus a little coke...
...But plainly it will not fade away...
...He is coeditor of The Latin American Left: From the Overthrow of Allende to Perestroika, to be published by Westview Press, 1992...
...or the United States will become the scene of a long and nasty battle, where ignorant armies clash by night...
...Azpurua and others call for miniprojects--small-scale tourism, the construction of small hydroelectric dams, and the collection of medicinal herbs--as viable and acceptable alternatives to help sustain the region's population...
...During his confirmation hearings, of course, Thomas denied that he had made up his mind on Roe...
...OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy THE CAN-DO QUONSET HOUSING IN A HURRY discovered this year that I am a Quonset person--someone who at one time lived in a Quonset hut, the nation's answer fifty years ago to the need for housing in a hurry...
...the only truly "safe" method is the traditional artisan practice of panning, which few miners are willing to revert to...
...they are both idealistic...
...Within the next five years the Navy alone--(the Army used them, too)-made or bought 160,000 Quonsets...
...They see abortion as a violation of the most fundamental of all human rights, namely, the right to life...
...in very conservative states there will be competition among extreme expressions of the prolife faith...
...Capuchin Father Jesus de la Torre, who toured his order's mission east of the Caroni in September, noted that "the garimpeiros thrive on the neglect of the government in the region, which has been converted into a veritable 'no-man's land.'" Azpurua and others suggest that nothing short of the complete elimination of gold mining--both legal and illegal in most of the region will spare it from desolation...
...Everywhere the nation will lose its balance and swing dangerously in the direction of single-issue politics...
...After all, he was not nominated because he was the most qualified person in America, as George Bush would have us believe...
...Prolife extremists are equally radical in their views, though with the signs changed...
...I don't know about you, but when I watch TV it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to tell whether I am seeing the network news or "A Current Affair...
...One possible contribution of the technologically advanced nations which Luzardo failed to mention would be to determine whether any ecologically safe means of mining compatible with the region are available...
...Up till now the silent majority, with mixed feelings on abortion, has stood quietly aside and watched prochoice and prolife extremists battle it out, meanwhile hoping that the whole issue would somehow fade away...
...But the most intense opposition came from the prochoice lobby...
...Up till now the third has had little or no representation...
...This nation has no greater need at the moment than that a party of moderation step forward to take the lead on the choice/abortion question...
...An even more extreme position is embraced by Alexander Luzardo, a leading conservationist and former congressman, who is wary of all activity in the region which promotes population concentration, even "ecotourism...
...632: Commonweal "It's a compromise, senator---Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we're prochoice...Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays we're prolife.'" The Thomas nomination was opposed by a number of interest groups, including the leadership of many prominent black organizations (e.g., the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, the National Baptists...
...Governments would also monitor the investments of multinational corporations...
...The plan envisions the creation of a commission whose financial resources would be derived largely from the developed nations...
...And indeed it should have been if only to remind us that this country was once able to answer a pressing need for shelter (for its soldiers here and abroad) by designing a "portable, durable, adaptable" building within three months in 1941, according to Reynolds...
...The cow will jump over the moon before these two extreme parties will compromise...
...Increasingly the best will lack all conviction and the worst will be full of passionate intensity...
...Clarence Thomas slugfest of midOctober is the first installment of the Roe v. Wade slugfest that will take place if the U.S...
...In moderate states there will be virtually no moderation, as the two parties attempt to tear one another apart...
...and in both states the heterodox will find it nearly impossible to win political office...
...If you enjoyed the Hill-Thomas bloodletting, then you are in for a real treat once Roe is overturned and the abortion question moves front and center in all fifty states...
...His implausible profession of open-mindedness on Roe did nothing to help his credibility when he later denied Anita Hill's charges...
...Anything less they consider a violation of liberties as sacred as freedom of speech, press, and religion...
...They are both sincere...
...In an interview in September, Luzardo told me "the system of national parks is designed to protect nature, not to facilitate the arrival of outsiders...
...Such help--which should go beyond the limited success of the "debt-for-nature swaps" in which thirdworld debts are condoned--is the responsibility of all nations because of the global implications of the area's ecology...
...For that matter, absent the abortion issue there would have been no Thomas nomination...
...The developed nations would contribute in other ways as well: Japan, for instance, which imports wood from the Amazon, and Germany, which exports mercury, would commit themselves to taking effective measures to control this type of commerce...
...At all events, I think Dan Quayle should resign and allow Oprah to become president of the Senate...
...On the contrary, it will grow bigger than ever once it enters the post-Roe era...
...He went on to point out that the practice of Yanomami tribes of dividing up once their membership exceeds a certain number is testimony to their sense that nature can support only a limited population density in the region...
...They say that all this scandal has caused people to get turned off to politics...
...Luzardo points to a study of the Venezuelan territory of Amazonas, undertaken by the Ministry of the Environment, which recommends limiting the area's population to two inhabitants per square kilometer...
...The Amazonian nations would constitute 50 percent of the voting power.This representational balance was designed to calm South American fears that the "internationalization of the Amazon" would infringe upon national sovereignty...
...OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr...
...it ended with Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill...
...Mixing the two has lowered the prestige of both...
...Still to be answered, however, is the costliness of environmental neglect itself...
...The first two have their dedicated and eloquent advocates...
...STEVE ELLNER Steve Ellner writes frequentlyfrom Venezuela forCommonweal...
Vol. 118 • November 1991 • No. 19
