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- <text id=93TT1590>
- <title>
- May 03, 1993: From Red to Green
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 25
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- From Red to Green
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Gorbachev gets a new job, and it may be even harder than his
- last one
- </p>
- <p> What do you do for an encore after ending the cold war and
- reversing the arms race? How about saving the planet? That's the
- latest assignment for Mikhail Gorbachev, having assumed the
- presidency of the International Green Cross, a new environmental
- organization that hopes to do for man-made disasters what the
- Red Cross does for the natural kind.
- </p>
- <p> The former Soviet President made the transition to
- environmental pitchman in Kyoto, Japan, at a ceremony sponsored
- by the New York City-based Global Forum and attended by such
- political and spiritual luminaries as former U.N.
- Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar and Mother Teresa. Now
- that he is a full-time Green, Gorbachev may have a lot to atone
- for. The Soviet Union committed a long string of environmental
- outrages during his watch, including the world's worst nuclear
- accident at Chernobyl.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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