Slum children vanish from Rio streets during Earth Summit
Rio de Janeiro faces a surge of urban hardship as about 200000 street children reportedly disappear amid the Earth Summit. Police, violence, and harsh living conditions in favelas and the Caixias suburb shape a grim scene while welfare groups seek clues to their fate.
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Police Detain Friends in Brazil as Activist Warned
Luisa 14, a resident who has lived on two streets in Brazil for six years, recalls the police taking friends away and beating them and expresses she does not know where they are. The report highlights alleged police violence and missing persons concerns.
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Rio Earth Summit yields biodiversity and climate accords
Nations at the Earth Summit produced key pledges and declarations including the File Declaration on environmental rights, Agenda 21 outlining financing, and a Biodiversity Treaty open for signing through June 1993. Disputes centered on aid amounts and fund distribution while the United States, Britain, and Canada showed limited commitments.
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Rio
United Nations
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Bush
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Limited power structure silences party voters
A critical analysis argues Democrats lack a coherent economic program for work and living standards while Republicans modernize through marketing. It notes a power alliance that favors monied interests, the weak party structure, and a populist rhetoric aimed at disaffected voters to win national contests.
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Who Will Tell the People explores political leadership loss
William Greider’s new work analyzes how government fails and who is to blame. Part 1 examined corporate spin doctors shaping policy and defeating bills. Part 2 discusses the parties' loss of leadership, while Part 3 outlines a new American blueprint.
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Free press creed on progress reform and justice
A newspaper pledge declares the free press must push progress and reform, resist injustice and corruption, fight demagogues from all sides, avoid party control, oppose privileged classes and plunder, show sympathy to the poor, and stay devoted to public welfare.
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