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...months left to complete the negotiations, the lofty spirit of the so-called Uruguay Round is bogged down in protectionist politics. The sticking points: how to limit agricultural subsidies, reduce protection for textiles and write new rules for trade in services. Last week President Bush warned against a breakdown in the talks. The Uruguay Round, he said, is "the last train leaving the station, and countries around the world must jump aboard...
...CHILDREN, MY AFRICA. South Africa's laureate of liberal anguish, Athol Fugard, staged the production at La Jolla Playhouse, near San Diego, of his harrowing play about the breakdown of civility and the possibility for compromise in his native land. As always with Fugard, the language is poetic, the vision inspiring and the truth unflinchingly confronted...
White House chief of staff John Sununu has been trying to avenge that hardball act. He had planned to have Bush go on the offensive, blaming / Democrats for the breakdown. But that plan was shelved as inappropriate after Iraq invaded Kuwait. Not until Budget Director Richard Darman and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady were out of town three weeks ago did Sununu get his way. He persuaded the President to interrupt his vacation -- and his direction of the U.S. response to Saddam's aggression -- to blast the Democrats for the impasse. That awkwardly timed sally appeared to embarrass Bush. He concluded...
...CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! South Africa's laureate of liberal anguish, Athol Fugard, staged the La Jolla Playhouse's production, near San Diego, of this harrowing play about the breakdown of civility and of the possibility for compromise in his native land. As always with Fugard, the language is poetic, the vision inspiring and the truth unflinchingly confronted...
...breakdown in talks left Bush exactly where he did not want to be: severed from his "no-new-taxes" pledge with nothing to show for it. Darman calculated months ago that Bush could survive the political hit for his U-turn on taxes if in return he solved the deficit problem. As an Administration official admitted, "We got suckered. Now we're in the same place we were three months ago except we've taken a 10-point hit in the polls...