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Marketing, like nature, abhors a vacuum, so the real question is what took them so long. In November Life Savers will introduce packages of bite-size "holes" in an attempt to add to its domination among hard candies. Only a killjoy would point out that they're not really the holes...
...Iraqi dictator, however, will find his position at home sorely tested as economic sanctions start to bite. The U.N. measures bar all member states from buying anything from or selling anything to either Iraq or Kuwait, except on humanitarian grounds. Separately, the E.C., the U.S. and Japan have frozen Kuwait's foreign assets, some $100 billion worldwide, to keep them out of Saddam's clutches...
...retired in 1988, agrees: "We have to show Saddam Hussein he can't take another step." The question is how. Freezing Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets and officially deploring Saddam's behavior are sensible first steps, but largely pro forma. More pressure will be required for Saddam to feel the bite...
...naturalist Peter Matthiessen (Far Tortuga; The Snow Leopard). Matthiessen has made the despoliation of the planet, as well as the ways in which men who work close to nature survive, his main concerns. Lord knows he has done his homework, and he details the destruction repeatedly and with bite. Here is how Bill House, a hardy plume hunter, sees the history of the region: "The Injuns was taking some egrets, trading 'em in with their otter pelts for gunpowder and whisky. The rookeries over by Lake Okeechobee, they was shot out in four years . . . If you recall that plumes would...
...small subjects for Arthur Hailey. Others may write about a double room or a 747; he takes on the entire Hotel and Airport. In his tenth novel, Hailey, 70, offers every sound bite of The Evening News (Doubleday; 564 pages; $21.95), plus executive-suite skirmishes between an anchorman and a correspondent, rivalries for beautiful and ambitious women, and a global sweep, from Vietnam to Peru -- with requisite stops in Washington, Los Angeles and New York. The characters are familiar, and the insights strictly keyhole. But Rather, Brokaw and Jennings could learn a lot about pace and timing from...