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...grisly scene broadcast on Soviet TV was filmed in a cramped Moscow apartment. A police detective ticked off the details: a man from out of town had called on some acquaintances; the visitor pulled a knife, stabbed the young woman and cracked her husband's skull with a blunt instrument. The woman lay dead on the floor, covered in her own blood. Medics tried to save her husband, but their faces showed little hope...
...Such blunt talk is rare in the U.S., where the White House and Congress are so far ignoring the arguments for wartime sacrifice in favor of a game of high-stakes political chicken. Neither side wants to be blamed for creating more pain after Washington cut spending and added $21 billion of new taxes as part of last year's deficit-reduction agreement. Bush is still nursing wounds for breaking his "no new taxes" pledge during the heated political battle. Yet virtually no one wants to rescind the budget deal and thereby widen the menacing federal deficit. While the Senate...
...final quarter of 1990, and the tailspin showed no sign of a letup. Domestic auto sales during the first 10 days of January were more than 31% lower than during the same period a year ago. "Nobody is selling anything. Times couldn't be worse," said Robert Lutz, the blunt-spoken president of Chrysler. "The only people buying are those with 90,000 miles on their cars or people who have had their cars stolen or burned." Concurs his colleague John Rock, general manager of the GMC truck division: "Everybody's in neutral and idling...
...store in a Cairo bazaar. "It is not a way to act, for one Arab brother to attack another, as Saddam attacked Kuwait. If everybody did this, what would our region be like?" A woman who claims to be one of only two female licensed cabdrivers in Egypt is blunt about Saddam: "He is a very dirty man. He is destroying everything." Then she hurries home to watch the latest episode of Falcon Crest, which is a popular Western intrusion in the life of Cairo...
...elite troops, 105,000 well-paid, well-trained Republican Guards, are being held in reserve, some around Baghdad, most in southern Iraq. From there, they could be rushed to any point at which American and allied forces are threatening to break through the Iraqi front. That strategy worked to blunt several Iranian offensives during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, but U.S. planners are hoping that this time many Republican Guards will never get through the incessant bombing and strafing to reach the front...