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On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, John Young wrote:

>    The WaPo of 4-15-96 reports on Secretary of State
>    Christopher's recent speech at Stanford on putting the
>    environment at the top of the US diplomatic agenda:
>
>       Secretary of State Warren Christopher has seen the
>       future and finds it alarming.
>
>       He sees parched fields, poisoned air, toxic waters,
>       rampant disease and societies driven to armed conflict
>       by competition for dwindling resources -- all
>       potentially threatening to Americans.
>
>       In that vision, those calamities resulted not from
>       nuclear war but from worldwide abuse of the environment
>       and overpopulation.
>
>       It was those threats that impelled Christopher last week
>       to proclaim a new definition of national security and a
>       worldwide shift in the objectives of U.S. diplomacy.
>       Christopher set environmentalism as a top priority, in
>       addition to traditional goals such as preserving peace
>       and promoting prosperity, in a speech outlining what
>       senior aides said he hopes will be the legacy of his
>       four years of directing the nation's foreign policy.
>
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