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Neither the White House nor Congress has begun to offer serious solutions to the economy's long-term troubles. On the contrary, both branches have permitted the budget deficit, which soaks up savings and hinders investment, to balloon to a projected $400 billion this year. And while the Administration once predicted that the deficit would disappear by 1996, it now foresees at least $200 billion worth of red ink for the next five years...
Such an operation, we soon learn, can be messy. In one case, a drug smuggler puts cocaine in a red balloon and flushes it down a toilet. At the end of the plumbing pipe sit two Santana lieutenants, who dutifully pick through excrement to retrieve the contraband...
...checkpoints on the roads, and while they allow local traffic in and out, they confiscate all but the smallest quantities of food and fuel. At the town of Kifri, 96 miles north of Baghdad, in outposts separated by a tense 500 yards., Iraqi troops confront bearded peshmerga guerrillas in balloon trousers and tightly wrapped turbans. "We have been suffering from two blockades," says Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two leading political groups. "First the U.N. embargo directed at all of Iraq, and second the blockade Saddam is directing just against Kurdistan...
...increasingly difficult, however, to visualize any of the starting five lifting his arms in the traditional V before an adoring convention come July -- let alone graciously accepting George Bush's concession on Election Night. Bill Clinton for a time looked like a deflating balloon, the air hissing out of his candidacy through a new pinhole labeled Draft Avoidance, as well as the previous puncture made by Gennifer Flowers. He has enough money and organizational support, especially in his native South, to remain a force at least through Super Tuesday on March 10. But even if he could start a comeback...
...Penis size has nothing to do with the sexual satisfaction of a woman," she said, explaining that the vagina was like a "balloon" and could accommodate any size...