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...officials claim that it is better to maintain good relations with Iraq than to isolate it -- the same argument Bush has used to justify continued sales of high-tech equipment to China. But Iraq is far more unpredictable and threatening. Through benign neglect or conscious effort, Washington is helping to make it possible for Saddam Hussein to pursue his own vision of the power balance in the Middle East -- a vision distinctly counter to U.S. interests...
...succeed, it may not outweigh the divisive forces that are now so evident. Politics, after all, is not just a rational accounting of assets and liabilities. All too often, the national aspirations that drive politics take on a wholly irrational character. Even if the central government applies massive and benign economic leverage by offering all sorts of inducements to the republics to stay, it may not deter them from trying to secede...
Compared with the Republican primary, the Democratic race looks benign. The favorite is Goddard, a three-term mayor whose father Sam was once Governor. With his Jay Rockefeller looks, Jack Kennedy charm and squeaky-clean politics (he now refuses PAC money), Goddard has Democratic presidential hopeful written all over him. This being Arizona, the unmarried Goddard was forced to campaign for mayor by announcing, "I am not gay." A Phoenix newspaper ran a front-page interview with various former girlfriends attesting to his honesty on the point...
...problems are more than budgetary. Since 1988 it has been conducting a public relations campaign in the Soviet media to eradicate its decades-old image as the repressive arm of the regime. KGB Chief Vladimir Kryuchkov depicts the agency as the lawful and benign upholder of justice, the supporter of perestroika as well as the country's first line of defense against domestic and foreign threats. KGB officials, for example, argue that the agency is the state's primary weapon against organized crime, and that as much as 80% of the agency's forces are engaged in the battle against...
While most of the errors are trivial or benign, others can wreak havoc. For the most part, people remain blissfully unaware of the problems until, like $ me, they are mysteriously stripped of a credit card or rejected for a loan. Says M.E. Buckner, president of Informative Research, a mortgage-credit- reporting company in Anaheim, Calif.: "There are mistakes in the system, and we have mechanisms to correct them, but you correct the system only when a consumer complains...