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...that the way to play to the traditionally Democratic blue collar workers who've voted Republican in the last three elections is to say Tsongas is an "economic Paul Revere." "Today our economic enemies are our political friends. The war they wage is in the marketplace, not on the battlefield," Tsongas writes. "Overall productivity grew at over 3 percent a year from 1960 to 1973 but has risen by only 1 percent a year since then...
...Werner Spies, which is at London's Tate Gallery this month and moves in mid-May to Stuttgart's Staatsgalerie. Long after the art movements to which Ernst contributed have passed into history, his images continue to detonate in the mind like unexploded land mines left on the old battlefield of modernism. If the young love Dada and Surrealism, and early Ernst in particular, it is because of his healthy desire to murder Papa's culture...
While news of the rebel victory prompted surprise and appreciation from the U.S., it comes at what may be an awkward time. Tired of waiting for the rebels to prove themselves on the battlefield, Washington has begun urging the resistance to meet Soviet demands that the Najibullah government be allowed to participate in any postwar national elections. But the rebels, bolstered by their sudden success in taking Khost, want to press on with the war. Nudging the fighting parties toward a permanent peace settlement may be harder than ever...
...order in the country, he may ease off on future spending cuts -- scheduled to reduce the defense budget 14.9% this year. But the Soviet economy is in such dire straits that it cannot provide the enormous amounts of money necessary to create the entire industries needed to duplicate U.S. battlefield technologies. "To be able to do as the allies did in the gulf," says Abraham Becker, director of the RAND-UCLA Center for Soviet studies, the Soviets "would have to revolutionize their economy." That is something Gorbachev has so far been unable to manage...
China is even further behind in the high-tech stakes. A commentator in the . military's Liberation Army Daily wrote of the gulf conflict, "We are seeing the warfare of the 21st century fought on the battlefield of today." The gulf battles were the antithesis of Mao Zedong's theories, which insisted that a "people's war" of massed armies would defeat any aggressor. Beijing began thinking about modernization recently, but with a defense budget of only $6.16 billion last year, it is hard pressed to deliver much more than basic equipment to its army of 3 million...