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Even if no military clash occurs, Bush's skills will be tested further in the weeks and months ahead. Keeping the nation solidly behind him will become harder if a stalemate ensues and oil prices continue their upward spiral despite Saudi promises to increase production. Bush could insulate himself by finally pressing for a sane energy policy, but he shows no signs of even contemplating...
...doubt that the stage has been set for a war of the widows, an icy clash of politics and personalities that has already galvanized the nation by pitting the country's most powerful women against each other. "Everybody is shivering with excitement," says Teodoro Benigno, who served as Aquino's press secretary until 1989. "It's the Cory mystique against the Imelda mystique...
...were a question of conflict between Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha ((movement)) and the A.N.C., we would have solved this matter long ago. But my problem is the government, because what is happening in Natal is no longer a clash between the A.N.C. and Inkatha. The government has taken advantage of the clash between the two organizations to crush the A.N.C. and eliminate its membership in Natal. I have asked De Klerk the simple question, Why has the government failed to suppress that violence for more than 4 1/2 years, and when almost 4,000 people have died? And De Klerk...
Last week, after two whites were killed in a clash between demonstrating black workers and white security officials at a nearby gold mine, Vlok sent extra police and a military backup into Welkom, saying that vigilante action was "unnecessary." Black South Africans can only hope that the A.W.B. is listening...
While East Europeans recognize their pollution peril, the effort to clean up the environment will inevitably clash with their desire to boost consumption of food and manufactured products. The revolutions against Communism were in part a reaction to a system that could not deliver the goods. The Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates that energy consumption in the region will rise 40% by 2005, as countries try to rev up production. Observes Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki: "People are impatient with the lack of commodities. They expect quick results from...