Word: demanding
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Pushing diplomacy along, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who ruled Kampuchea from 1953 to 1970, may have dropped his demand that the Hanoi-backed regime be dismantled before a new national-unity government could be installed. As leader of the main non-Communist rebel faction, Sihanouk has a strong claim to at least a symbolic leadership post in a new government after the Vietnamese pull...
Stanford economist Ronald McKinnon, an expert on foreign trade and finance, concurred with that view. "A declining dollar is nothing more than a reflection of an easy-money policy," said he, adding that the excess of Government borrowing and spending increases U.S. demand for imported goods. At the same time, currencies that are strong in relation to the dollar have made American farms, factories and real estate tempting to foreign buyers, says McKinnon, "so we conduct something of a fire sale" to pay for imported merchandise...
...woes is the apparent failure of his perestroika campaign to jump-start the Soviet economy. A report put out by the Council of Ministers last week showed that, while the Soviet economy grew by 4.4% last year, farms and factories failed to produce enough quality goods to satisfy consumer demand. With wages now growing faster than productivity, inflation threatens. Other figures indicated that exports fell by 2% in 1988, while imports (much of it food) rose by 6.5%. "The honeymoon for Gorbachev has ended at home," says a Moscow-based Western diplomat. "Gorbachev's been in power too long...
...Khalef, recently told a Kuwaiti newspaper, "the establishment of a Palestininan state in any part of Palestine has as its goal the establishment of a Palestinian state in all of Palestine." The chairman of the Palestinian National Council, Sheikh Abdul Hanid el Haya, agreed, "We should take and then demand more...
Bennett, if confirmed, will oversee and coordinate all the Government's drug efforts. Next to the deficit, drugs are the hot spot of politics. Like Bush, Bennett believes the U.S. must sharpen attacks on both the supply and the demand ends of the drug trade. But long ago he saw that education was the only way finally to control the scourge. "The core problem is the children," he told friends, "particularly children in the big cities. They are dying from drugs...