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CALIFORNIA is suffering the full impact of the taxpayers' revolt of the 1980s. Proposition 13, the 1978 referendum that froze property taxes at 1% of assessed value, depleted county treasuries, leaving the state to pick up the bills for things like schools and welfare services. Now California faces a $1.5 billion budget gap that is expected to swell to $6.5 billion by 1994. Incoming Governor Pete Wilson is refusing to rule out the possibility of higher taxes. But he also wants more freedom from constraints imposed by the state constitution and voter initiatives and laws that earmark much...
...1970s produced a few sprouts of freedom. Women appeared on TV for the first time, and educational opportunities for them were expanded. But the overthrow of the Westernizing Shah of Iran by the Ayatullah Khomeini's followers in 1979 froze the budding trend toward liberalization. Later that year, the royal family was shocked when 250 armed religious extremists occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Their defeat took two weeks and cost 229 lives. Suddenly the regime became more devout. Executions were stepped up. And the mutawa, the religious police, gained greater influence. Its members patrol the streets carrying slender sticks...
WASHINGTON--President Bush froze Iraq's assets in this country and cut off imports of 588,000 barrels a day of Iraqi oil yesterday in retaliation for the lightning invasion of Kuwait. U.S. officials were seeking word on American oil workers missing in the region...
...alternative, Bush took one of the toughest economic options open to him. He froze control of Iraqi assets in the United States--and of Kuwait's assets, too, so they wouldn't fall into Iraqi hands...
...pistol. The rival gang was waiting, armed and hidden, but Ducc spied two on the street who weren't even looking at him because, he says, "I'm so small." He fired and hit one of them. "I saw a lot of blood," he remembers. He froze, so shocked he was unable to move. One of his homeboys snatched him up and ran back to their neighborhood. The momentary paralysis was not held against him: it was then that he was awarded the nickname Little Ducc, after an older, respected gang member...