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...ditch but helped carve out the little nation around it by supporting secessionists in a malaria-ridden province of Colombia. But no good deed in the pursuit of empire goes unpunished. The legacy that T.R. left his successors has turned increasingly from a strategic and commercial boon to a political curse. The spectacle of Panamanians tearing down U.S. flags marred the last days of Dwight Eisenhower's term and the first of Lyndon Johnson...
...Administration's hard line has settled a feud between the Defense Department, which has championed the FSX deal as a strategic and technological boon for the U.S., and the Commerce Department, which challenged it as a giveaway of fighter technology to Japan. Both agencies now support the White House position. Says Defense Secretary Richard Cheney: "My hope is that we'll be able to get that clarification and resolve our differences with the Japanese...
This month the FSX's proponents at the State and Defense departments, who see the deal as an economic and strategic boon for the U.S., argued heatedly with critics who wanted to scrap the plan. Finally last week, President Bush called an unusual National Security Council meeting to thrash out the issues. In the end, he decided on a compromise: to go through with the deal but to apply safeguards that will prevent Japanese contractors from getting access to the most important technology. According to presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, Bush has yet to decide on "at least three or four...
...spreads and the bigger processors." But ranchers generally welcome the Japanese beef boom because the export sales will help revive a depressed industry. Per capita beef consumption in the U.S. has fallen from 94.2 lbs. in 1976 to 72.7 lbs. last year. The Japanese investment should also be a boon for Americans who sell supplies and expertise to the new beef barons. Says John Morse, president of Selkirk Ranch: "The Japanese are willing to pay a premium for people who will raise beef the way they want to produce...
...predecessor was. Boskin certainly hopes that is the case: "I've always taken very seriously the research of all schools of < thought. I didn't start out presuming they were wrong, because I wasn't wed to one camp or another." That sort of thinking should be a boon to the Bush Administration as it grapples with deficits and other problems that so far have proved too big and intractable for one narrow philosophy to solve...