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...reckon the country should have a standing army of at least 100,000. Fahd's family has been leery of a powerful military; for internal security it relies on the 35,000-man National Guard, a tightly knit organization based on tribal loyalties. Still, the government has moved to expand the regular military. Earlier this month, Fahd asked for volunteers. Thousands of Saudis responded, displaying a degree of patriotism not often seen in the heterogeneous state...
...direct challenge to Mayor David Dinkins, who was already dodging complaints that his quiet, cautious manner -- deemed an asset during last fall's election campaign -- was not well suited to leading the fight against crime. With budgetary constraints frustrating his efforts to fulfill a campaign promise to expand the force, the mayor consistently refused to commit himself to a specific number before receiving a manpower report from police commissioner Lee Brown on Oct. 1. Cuomo's address, and a growing sense of crisis, forced Dinkins at last to announce that an additional 3,000 to 6,000 police would...
...needs today, vs. 60% during the oil shock of 1973, most West European economies are on relatively solid ground. None are more robust than West Germany's, which is expected to grow 4% this year, despite the financial burdens of unification. More remarkably, a united German economy should still expand 3.5% in 1991, predicts Peter Pietsch, an economist at Frankfurt's Commerzbank. Bonn has been bolstered by a strong deutsche mark, which this year has gained 8% in value against the dollar, the currency in which oil trading is done. Nevertheless, energy will be one of the many problems facing...
...hundreds of years, Iraq has been governed by men with ambitions to expand their country's borders. Whether a successor to Saddam would perpetuate that tradition is unknowable. But as long as Saddam himself is around, trouble will be close by. He is, after all, the same Saddam whose air force crippled the U.S.S. Stark with an Exocet missile three years ago. (A mistake, said Baghdad, and apologized.) Saddam sees himself as the rightful ruler of the Arab world -- and he is embarked on a nuclear-weapons development program that the CIA says could be successful in three to five...
...Indians initiated the blockade to force the town of Oka to drop plans to expand a golf course onto land the Mohawks consider sacred property. An aborted police raid last month to break the boycott ended in the fatal shooting of an officer...