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...Palestinian economy is in dire straits," Lawrence said. "There's a need for that economy to have trade, but there's also a need on the part of the Israelis for security...
Satarov, the President's aide, denies that Yeltsin sanctioned Korzhakov's comments. "We're way too far down the road for that," Satarov says. But the next dire scenario has Yeltsin moving to invalidate the vote after it takes place. Russia's election law is filled with loopholes, and an Interior Ministry official says Yeltsin could contest the results for months. And then what? If he is serious about "never" letting the Communists come to power, says this official, then the only option would be armed confrontation...
...American standards, many of the Yeltsin campaign's tactics are pretty crude--and none more so than God Forbid, a six-page newspaper warning of dire consequences if Zyuganov wins. On the front page of the first issue, which has already flooded 10 million Russian homes, a fabricated plea from Stacy Edwards urges voters to choose Yeltsin over the Communists. Edwards plays Holly on Santa Barbara, an American soap opera widely watched on Russian television. Inside, a full-page color photo portraying Zyuganov has been retouched to show him in a surgical gown, holding a sickle poised to slice into...
...when, according to Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson, "the bottom third of the African-American population--some 10 million persons--live in dire poverty," and "the bottom 10 per cent or so--the so-called underclass--exist in an advanced stage of social, economic, and moral disintegration," seizing opportunity, making use of programs like affirmative action for example (as both men admit was part of the reason they made it to the Ivy League as students), is an integral part of success. A Yankelovich Partners, Inc.--New Yorker survey (the results of which were published in the special issue...
...KCMSD, Missouri v. Jenkins portends a big reduction in the state's extraordinary desegregation payments. For court-ordered desegregation generally, the decision's implications could be dire. Says associate director of the naacp Legal Defense Fund Ted Shaw, who argued the Kansas City case before the high court: "If the courts say unitary status means school districts just have to get to the point where a desegregated snapshot can be taken, and then they can go back to the segregating school assignments they had before--if that's all Brown has done, it's been a big charade...