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...nays appear to have it. William O'Keefe, executive vice-president of the American Petroleum Institute, the voice of the U.S. oil giants, calls a new gasoline tax the worst choice of the lot because it could clobber regions where people drive long miles and would be "extremely regressive." The American Trucking Associations has sent out bulletins to 35,000 trucking companies to begin mobilizing for battle. "We're loading guns," spokesman John Doyle told the Wall Street Journal. The threat of a tax hike worries individuals like Rebecca Harrison, who owns a Los Angeles flooring company with four trucks...
...help bridge that gap, Tsongas would use government funds to assist companies in turning their ideas into lucrative products. That could halt an embarrassing trend in which Japanese firms have frequently adopted U.S. know- how, such as microchip technology, and then used it to clobber American companies...
...watch the televised daily briefings from the Pentagon and coalition headquarters in Riyadh. Most of Iraq's antiaircraft batteries were made in the U.S.S.R. and manned by personnel trained by Soviet advisers. Yet the coalition's fighter-bombers and cruise missiles achieved perfect surprise, then set about to clobber Iraq with near impunity for six weeks. There was much cursing and gnashing of teeth among the Soviet officers glued to the tube in Moscow...
Bush's advisers at the Pentagon and at coalition headquarters in Riyadh are "good to go" for a ground war, in part because it gives them a chance to clobber the ghosts of Vietnam. Meanwhile, Gorbachev's generals are licking their wounds from Afghanistan, bringing home the pieces of the Warsaw Pact and supervising commando raids against civilians in restive republics. That makes them all the more dyspeptic about their principal rival's pummeling a longtime Soviet client whose northern border is only about 400 miles from the U.S.S.R. Moreover, Operation Desert Storm is decimating a military establishment made...
CHEERS (NBC, Nov. 8, 9 p.m. EST). While The Simpsons and Cosby try to clobber each other, this hardy perennial has quietly passed them both and grabbed the No. 1 ratings spot. Tonight the barroom gang marks its 200th episode with an hour-long special featuring talk-show host John McLaughlin...