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...Takes you by surprise!" reads the cheery slogan for Cisco, a fruit-flavored - beverage produced by New York's Canandaigua winery. The claim rings true, for Cisco's alcohol content is 20%, almost twice that of most wines and four times that of wine coolers. A growing number of health and consumer groups are asking Canandaigua to recall all bottles until the packaging and marketing are revamped. Critics contend that Cisco's screw-top bottles, fruit flavors and availability in many convenience stores create the impression that the product is akin to wine coolers. Canandaigua insists that customers know Cisco...
...certainly nothing that Saddam Hussein intended, but his invasion of Kuwait bore its most significant fruit on Sunday. For the first time since World War II, the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union met each other not as cold war adversaries or even as wary rivals to make their competition more manageable, but as partners cooperating against a common enemy: Saddam. Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Helsinki fully agreed on their objective: an unconditional Iraqi pullout...
Even more gross is Barfo, a gelatinous goo manufactured by Topps, the bubble-gum company. The fruit-flavored candy is packed in squeezable plastic figures that extrude the substance through their mouths. Says a seven-year-old who savors the stuff: "When I think about it, it's disgusting." That alone should guarantee boffo sales for Barfo...
...problems in a direct and forceful way. Since January, for example, the Flatbush section of Brooklyn has been roiled by a black boycott of two Korean grocery stores that began after a Haitian woman accused the Koreans of assaulting her in an argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. The shopowners obtained a civil court injunction ordering the protesters to remain at least 50 ft. away from the shops' entrances, but Dinkins has not ordered the police to enforce it. Instead, he appointed a commission to review his handling of the affair. Not surprisingly, the report it issued...