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...Fighting raged again yesterday in the beach town-turned-battleground of Khafji, which has changed hands twice in as many days. A Saudi general called Iraq's attack on the town a "suicide mission...
...have come -- or fallen. The struggle over Robert Bork turned court nominations into a savage political battleground. "Every faction wants its own little government in the court," sighed one White House strategist last week. The Democratic Congress, so long denied Executive power, and the Republican White House, so long thwarted in Legislative matters, both seek the balance of power through the Supreme Court. Washington has 55,000 lawyers, 7,000 lobbyists, 20,000 congressional staff members and some 10,000 journalists. Most of them are self-appointed experts on the court. They produce interesting noise, no discernible national harmony...
Real estate is not the only battleground. A law passed in March stipulates that former owners may reclaim businesses seized by the Communists; about 50,000 petitions are expected. State-owned enterprises have been placed under the control of a new government authority, the Treuhandanstalt, which will liquidate uneconomic plants and shift viable businesses toward private enterprise. So far, however, only a fraction of the 9,000 or so targeted firms have been privatized...
...Missouri rehabilitation center as Cruzan. "Maybe it would have been best if she had died that night," he says, referring to Christine's 1987 auto accident. "This has been a 34-month funeral." And like many Americans, Pete Busalacchi believes a family's private tragedy should not be a battleground for right-to-life interest groups, politicians or judges. "This is for individuals," he insists. "My suggestion is to take Nancy to the Supreme Court and wheel her in and ask, 'Do you want to live like this...
...America. With El Salvador's leftist guerrillas likely to be undercut by a halt in support from Nicaragua and Cuba isolated as never before, the U.S. has an opportunity to move beyond its 30- year struggle with Marxism in the region. It can stop using Nicaragua as an ideological battleground and start treating it like a needy neighbor. But to turn this electoral triumph into something substantial and lasting, Washington will have to do something it has not done for a while: think big and act fast...