World News 05-09-2002 who: General Colin Powell what: Jeered as Earth Summit draws to a close where: Johannesburg when: Yesterday snippet: Mr Powell provoked a slow handclap in the audience by saying "international treaty strictures on climate change were inappropriate and too costly for the US", reports The Guardian. And a wave of anti-American feeling "which had been building up for nine days was unleashed when Mr Powell blamed the land reforms of Zimbabwe`s president, Robert Mugabe, for pushing millions of people `to the brink of starvation`." [... more]

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