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Both of them, in fact, applied steady pressure and persuasion, and last week Israel, the final holdout, seemed closer than ever to agreeing to a regional peace conference. Whether the initiative is named for Bush or Baker hardly matters. If it succeeds, it will be because it is American by birth. The U.S. is the world's only fully functioning superpower and the only likely source of rewards for good international behavior. So the states of the region must calculate not only what it could cost them to say no to Washington but also how it might profit them...
...that Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms are taking hold even in the Soviet military. According to U.S. intelligence sources, annual tank production has dropped from 3,500 in 1988 to just 800, and similar cutbacks are taking place on Air Force assembly lines. While the Soviet navy remains the lone holdout against perestroika by continuing a nuclear-carrier program, there are encouraging signs of change there too. The Severodvinsk shipyards have produced a tourist submarine, complete with large glass viewing portholes and devices for picking things up off the ocean floor...
...principal holdout against a hands-off policy was George Bush. The President was so eager to see Saddam overthrown that he insisted on warnings to the Iraqi leader not to use maximum force against the insurgents. The threats, however, scared Saddam less than they did congressional leaders of both parties, who rushed to the White House to urge Bush to do nothing that would interfere with the speedy return of American soldiers. Finally, when it came time last week to put up or shut up on his warnings to Saddam, Bush decided to shut up. His spokesman Marlin Fitzwater made...
With a value-added tax now the rule in most industrialized countries, the U.S. is the last major holdout against adopting it to replace diverse and competing sales taxes. So let the debate begin: Is a pizza with extra pepperoni a snack or a staple...
...where the nation's successes sprang from and what its unalterable beliefs are. They will clash over which myths and icons to invoke in education, in popular culture, in ceremonial speechmaking from political campaigns to the State of the Union address. Which is the more admirable heroism: the courageous holdout by a few conquest-minded whites over Hispanics at the Alamo, or the anonymous expression of hope by millions who filed through Ellis Island? Was the subduing of the West a daring feat of bravery and ingenuity, or a wretched example of white imperialism? Symbols deeply meaningful to one group...