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EUROP
CONFRONTS
ENVIRONMENTAL
CRISIS
Western
Europe's leaders
are
worried. Scientists, political
leaders,
even
members of royalty
are
urging
concerted,
united
action
on
the common
enemy-
widespread, nearly
uncon–
trolled pollution and environmental
decay. The
very heritage
of Europe's rich cultural post is at stake .
by
Gene
H.
Hogberg
Strasbourg, France
W
ESTERN
EURO
PE
is threatened.
The danger this time is not
from without-that is, Com–
munist aggression - but rather from
within. It is Europe's own burgeoning
prosperity that is threatening to swamp
the continent under a swelling tide of
pollution .
The Rhine- "Sewer of Europe"
The most important environmental
conference cver held in Europe was
reccntly concludeJ hcre in this somber
French city on the Rhine River.
The Rhine.
This ac¡uatic supcrhighway, the world's
busiest river, txemplifies the gravity of