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DATE: THURSDAY, June 21, 1990                   TAG: 9006210290
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-13   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun
DATELINE: LONDON                                LENGTH: Short

DELEGATES PRAISE U.S. REVERSAL OF OZONE POLICY

The Bush administration's policy reversal last week to support an international fund to protect the ozone layer was welcomed Wednesday by delegates on the opening day of a 75-nation conference on the global environmental crisis.

The 10-day conference is expected to end in international commitment to phase out production of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), widely used in aerosols and refrigerators, by the year 2000.

A key element to international agreement at the London conference is the creation of a fund to help Third World nations develop their economies without resorting further to the ozone-destroying gases.

Richard Smith, leader of the U.S. delegation to the conference, predicted that the fund would amount to at least $120 million, and would be operating within a year.

by CNB