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President Bush could make the nightmare all the more likely if he decides -- as some of his aides and key Congressmen are urging -- to start sending U.S. arms to the non-Communist resistance forces. Under present circumstances, and under current U.S. policy, that "lethal assistance" would be directed against Phnom Penh, not the Khmer Rouge...
...this session the court has been asked to consider an Illinois law that would place expensive building and staffing requirements upon abortion facilities. In an earlier case the court disallowed a law that would require first-trimester abortions to be performed in hospitals; just 13% of all current abortions take place there, mostly on an outpatient basis...
...ridden national Government and Washington-mandated increases in spending for catastrophic health care and nursing homes. State officials also blame some unexpected consequences of the 1986 federal tax-reform law. Late in 1986 taxpayers rushed to sell securities and property before capital-gains taxes jumped from 20% to a current maximum of 33%. Some state planners rosily assumed this high revenue would continue. Cigarette smokers will pay for the miscalculation...
...role in the rebellion, for example; few peasants suffered under a feudal yoke. In the U.S. a much heralded new work by Harvard University's Simon Schama, called Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, depicts the ancien regime in a positive light -- not too differently from France's current best seller La Revolution, by historian Francois Furet. "The French have come to realize that the revolution was a magnificent event that turned out badly," says Furet, a professor at Paris' Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the University of Chicago...
...Sotheby's. "We would hope it sets an example." Environmental groups hope so as well. The U.S. imports about $30 million worth of ivory annually. Much of it is illegally harvested in a slaughter that each year wipes out nearly 100,000 of Africa's elephants, reducing their current numbers to as few as 600,000. To cut demand, the African Wildlife Foundation, a Washington-based group, has written letters to 11,000 jewelers in the U.S. asking them to stop selling ivory products. Several major retailers, including Macy's, have already agreed to phase out ivory sales...