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George Bush has overthrown two foreign governments since becoming President. Toppling the dictatorial regime of Panama in December required 24,000 U.S. troops. Sending Israel's overwrought democracy into a nervous breakdown last month took only four words from Bush's lips...
...enthusiastic about this union." Despite a carefully nurtured reconciliation between Jerusalem and Bonn, which has paid $33 billion in reparations to Jews, memories are powerful. When Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, aware that Bonn has often been Israel's best friend in Europe, said he did not "foresee any breakdown of the democratic institutions in West Germany," the daily Ma'ariv retorted that Arens and Israel seemed to be losing their sanity. Jewish acceptance of German unification, the paper said, "can be discussed in about 200 years, after ten generations of united Germans have proved that this is indeed...
IWISH there were some way that I could get through the testing process without having a nervous breakdown. Perhaps I could do the research for the sample problems. I could go out and call 1000 people to see if they approve of the President or I can take 500 spelling tests. As long as somebody else analyzes the data I don't mind doing the leg-work. Its the finger-work that I can't handle--most of the problems require more than ten, and that's when I start to get confused...
...most extreme, the currently fashionable grumpiness about Gorbachev implies a nostalgia for at least some aspects of the bad old days. Yes, Leonid Brezhnev presided over an era of stagnation, but perhaps that was preferable to the nervous breakdown that the U.S.S.R. seems to be experiencing now. Moreover, when Brezhnev was on the Lenin mausoleum, waving like a rusty windup toy at the troops parading by, there was a predictability to Soviet behavior and a stability in international life that in retrospect are beginning to look good to some...
...waters a year ago, Americans reacted with shock and indignation. Last week it was Exxon's turn to be shocked. U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh announced that the company had been indicted on five criminal counts stemming from the March 1989 oil spill. That action, which reportedly followed the breakdown of a plea bargain that Alaskan officials opposed as too lenient, could cost Exxon $700 million in fines if the company is convicted. Said Thornburgh: "We intend to see that the laws are fully and strictly enforced...