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Even some Republicans are expressing concern about the paralysis. | Conservative analyst Kevin Phillips described the problem two weeks ago in the Washington Post as "a frightening inability to define and debate America's emerging problems." Last week's 190-point stock market tumble was the immediate result of economic developments, namely UAL's failure to obtain financing for its leveraged buyout. But Washington's glaring inability to control spending hardly inspires the confidence that markets need...
After a two-day session, the 21 members of the ruling Politburo issued a statement that for the first time expressed official concern about the recent exodus of 50,000 East Germans to the West. Then, in an unprecedented gesture of conciliation, the leadership acknowledged, "We are open to discussion." Hinting that press and travel restrictions might be eased, the statement continued, "Together, we want to discuss all basic questions of our society...
...manager Tony LaRussa properly pooh-poohed the A's 8-1 record against the Giants during spring training and professed concern about the Sock Exchange. Giants manager Roger Craig, ever the optimist, pointed out that "we've got ; men who respond to challenge. We've battled back all year long." But as the series opened last Saturday, hard-eyed bookmakers in Reno made the A's odds-on favorites to win the Battle...
During his meeting with Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita in Tokyo, Bush expressed concern about the project. Takeshita seemed prepared for the question. He stiffly denied involvement and assured Bush that his country would not fund the road. It was the first time that a U.S. President considered an ecological issue important enough to justify a tense moment in relations with the world's other economic superpower...
...concern limited to the First World. A treaty signed in Basel, Switzerland, in March limits what poorer nations call toxic terrorism -- use of their lands by richer countries as dumping grounds for industrial waste. And on Sept. 7 more than 100 member states of the nonaligned movement dispensed with their past denunciations of the U.S. and instead called for "a productive dialogue with the developed world" on "protection of the environment." As if heeding that appeal, on Sept. 11, at an international environmental conference in Tokyo, Japan's new Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu affirmed a pledge that his country would...