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...trade agreement were about to collapse over a mere hill of beans. Frustrated, she decided to risk it all by announcing that the U.S. would slap 200% tariffs on $300 million worth of European farm exports, notably white wine, if a deal were not concluded in a month. Suddenly, an all-out trade war between the U.S. and Europe seemed imminent...
...gender. On the Republican side, there was a platform borrowed from The Handmaid's Tale and Marilyn Quayle to represent the vanishing female option of career wife. Quayle made it clear just how much was at stake when she dragged in the draft and the sexual | revolution. This was all-out culture war, baby boom-style: feminism vs. antifeminism, repression vs. permission, mixing things up vs. shoring up the walls. Armageddon with a female cast...
...would all this be good for the ailing U.S. economy? Not right now, say many economists. They concede that the deficit soaks up savings that could better be used to create jobs and build new factories. But they contend that an all-out attack on it next year would take money from people's pockets and hurt the economy. Acknowledging the point, the Perot camp says its plan would not take effect until 1994 at the earliest. Says John White, an Eastman Kodak vice president who was the principal architect of the plan: "If this economy were to continue...
...Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Even as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were preparing to resume peace talks set for this week in Washington, their armed compatriots were shooting it out in the territories. The new pattern began to emerge eight months ago, when the Israeli army launched an all-out offensive to end what it describes as the "red intifadeh," resistance by an increasing number of Palestinians who have switched from stones to guns in their fight against the occupation. The army's campaign, which mainly employs undercover units -- "Arabized" is the term used by the media...
Though Gallagher has spent his life preparing for nuclear war, he has few illusions about what it would mean. "Through the years, we always reacted like we could handle an all-out nuclear attack," he says. "I don't think people -- even our top people in government -- have any idea of what a thousand multimegaton nuclear weapons on the U.S. would do. We'd be back in the Stone Age. It's unthinkable...