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Americans got a reminder last week that some war zones are more lethal than others. After seven months in the Persian Gulf with a Patriot missile battery, Army Specialist Anthony Riggs, 22, won a two-week furlough. Back home less than 24 hours, Riggs was helping his wife load a car and rented van to move out of a crack-infested neighborhood in northeast Detroit to an apartment in the safer suburbs. Someone took a fancy to Riggs' 1989 Nissan Sentra, pumped five shots into the soldier and sped...
Moderate and conservative House Republicans began squabbling among themselves. The issue: whether to back a short-term plan to keep the government running until Oct. 19 or to allow mandatory spending cuts to take effect, which would have forced the furlough of thousands of government employees. (Congressional Democrats settled the argument by passing the interim arrangement with the aid of Senate Republicans.) The President compounded the confusion with daily shifts in his position on taxes. Democratic majorities on the appropriations committees began filling in the blanks of a vague plan to cut $500 billion from the deficit over five years...
...George Bush understood America's gullibility around the issue of race. You think Dan Quayle was Bush's running mate? It was Willie Horton," Stith said referring to a much-publicized ad campaign focusing on a Black convict who raped a white woman while on furlough from prison...
...days left before the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deadline falls. If no agreement can be reached on paring the deficit to $64 billion by Oct. 1, across-the-board spending cuts -- the so-called sequester -- will go into effect, closing airports, canceling children's vaccinations and forcing federal prisons to furlough hundreds of inmates. Although the deficit problem may seem familiar, even tiresome, it is more acute than ever: Administration estimates for this year have grown from $100 billion to $161 billion, largely because the economy is growing less quickly than anticipated. Last week the Labor Department reported that civilian unemployment...
Collor has run into other problems. The Central Union of Workers, representing many government employees, has threatened work stoppages to block the privatization of state-owned industries. A plan to furlough bureaucrats has stumbled on a provision of the 1988 constitution that grants lifetime employment guarantees to all civil servants with five years' tenure. The President has tried to circumvent the law by putting employees on "reserve" status and reducing their pay, but the Supreme Court has stifled that effort...