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...dissolute and spendthrift rulers, he is admired for his austere and disciplined habits. "He has no palaces, no Swiss bank accounts," says Major General Yusuf Kawash, a retired member of the Jordanian army. Saddam has positioned himself as an avenging Robin Hood, intent upon stealing the wealth of the affluent but uncaring gulf states and redistributing it to the impoverished Arab masses. Jordan's Hussein reinforced that reasoning early last week, when he said that the crisis was "redrawing boundaries between the haves and the have-nots...
...Rouge to New Orleans, that is lined with oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The alley's abnormally high cancer rate has prompted one health worker to call it a massive human experiment. A big mess in Chicago is the work of "fly dumpers," unlicensed truckers who collect filth from affluent , neighborhoods and deposit it in vacant lots in stealthy forays at night...
...catching design in clothes, cars, houses, even the simplest household objects. A society long praised -- and sometimes derided -- for an overgrown work ethic has turned its restless energies to the cultivation of leisure. Enveloped in superlatives, West Germany has emerged as one of the world's most affluent societies: the nation with the largest trade surplus; the greatest per capita concentration of high- performance automobiles; the best wages for the shortest work week; and the most rewarding all-round standard of living among major industrialized countries...
...additional state education aid to relieve homeowners of one of the most onerous property-tax rates in the U.S. Here too Florio soaked the rich: the legislature approved a plan to shift the bulk of its education assistance from the wealthiest to the poorest districts by 1995, leaving the affluent to make up the difference on their...
...wooing blacks, Bush has thrown Democrats off-balance and defused some of the anti- Republican fury that fueled record Democratic turnouts by blacks in 1986 and 1988. Moreover, by reversing the G.O.P.'s long-standing whites-only image, Bush's black offensive has also strengthened his appeal to young, affluent voters. Says a White House aide: "If nothing else, you cut off other lines of attack...