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...Dodge Intrepid and Eagle Vision ($16,000 to $22,000). The cars feature an innovative "cab- forward" design to allow more passenger room and window area. Highly praised by auto experts, the new cars are expected to be worthy rivals to such popular models as the Ford Taurus, Honda Accord and Toyota Camry. All told, "Chrysler is the hottest company in the car business," declares David E. Davis Jr., editor of Automobile magazine...
Resentment of the political establishment weighed heavily too. Brian Mulroney, already the most unpopular Prime Minister in the history of Canadian polling, was a big loser. According to one survey, his campaigning for the accord created twice as many no votes as yesses. Aboriginal peoples -- Indians and Inuit (Eskimos) -- also suffered badly. The rejected constitution would have granted them greatly increased self-government...
...days, it looked as if the on-again-off-again negotiations for a worldwide trade accord, as part of the Uruguay Round of GATT talks, were finally coming to an end. High-level U.S. and E.C. leaders were said to be ever so close to signing an agreement. They weren't close enough. At the last minute the talks foundered on the same sensitive issue that has persistently stymied negotiators: farm subsidies. Unless France reverses its rigid opposition to European concessions, it appears that a trade pact, if one is ever signed, will come too late to bolster George Bush...
...think she wanted to come forward, do it onher own accord, before she got fingered," McKaysaid...
After the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988, President-elect Bush was faced, according to a State Department study, with deciding whether "to treat Iraq as a distasteful dictatorship to be shunned where possible, or to recognize Iraq's present and potential power in the region and accord it relatively high priority . . . ((with)) steady relations concentrating on trade." Bush eventually, and not without justification, chose the latter course. On Oct. 2, 1989, he signed National Security Directive 26, setting out the ways in which closer ties with Iraq were to be achieved, including "nonlethal forms of military assistance...