ENVIRONMENT

EC Leads Effort to Lift Tuna Ban: The European Community and two dozen other countries attacked a U.S. embargo on tuna imports that is intended to protect dolphins. The EC and the non-European governments asked the ruling council of the 103-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to adopt a report that opposes the embargo. The world trade body must adopt the report for it to have legal force. The United States put an embargo into effect early last year against countries, including Mexico and Venezuela, whose tuna fishing fleets it said are killing too many dolphin. Later it placed a secondary embargo on Italy, France, Spain and Britain--all members of the 12-nation EC--for importing tuna from those countries.