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...could have made [Asaad] pay to join [the coalition]," according to Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Barbara Lerner, Baker and the State Department "gave him a cynical, senseless and deadly bribe, winking at his annexation of Lebanon, turning a blind eye to the terrorist networks he controls and letting him export Bekaa Valley opium with impunity...
...back heavy subsidies to Canada's have-not regions. Nonetheless, hardscrabble New Brunswick last year registered 3% growth, more than any other province. Frank McKenna, the provincial premier, attributes much of the gain to the reduction of trade barriers among the Atlantic provinces and to growing opportunities for export to the U.S. "The launching of free trade has reshaped our relationships with the federal government in many ways," he says. "But overall, our experience has been positive. It means working harder and smarter. What we're doing here is taking a lemon and making lemonade...
Like many a superstar before him, Barney is learning that fame can be a heavy burden. A legal team is scrambling to quash a rash of Barney impostors. And grandiose plans to market and export the creature may, through overexposure, make him a victim of his own success. Still, not a bad fate, given what happened to the rest of the world's dinosaurs...
...scrap began when Washington threatened to add a 200% tariff (thus tripling prices) on white wine imported from Europe -- unless the E.C. agrees by Dec. 5 to extraordinary cuts in subsidies that encourage production of oilseeds. In the U.S. view, these subsidies unfairly limit export sales of American soybeans. But France is trying to stall any such reductions until after parliamentary elections in March. President Francois Mitterrand's Socialists face defeat as it is, but the anger of farmers with reduced incomes might cost them even more votes and seats than expected. Reasoning: it's better for a successor center...
...broadside in the debate, Bush declared that "there hasn't been one single scintilla of evidence that there's any U.S. technology involved" in Saddam's nuclear program. In fact, as Bush later admitted, U.N. inspectors found advanced American products in Iraqi nuclear-weapons labs, purchased with proper export licenses. "Our own records show U.S. computers went to virtually every known nuclear and ballistic missile site," says Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control in Washington. But it is also true that much more dual-use equipment -- and military weapons -- came from France, Germany, the Soviet...