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...composure. Says an intimate of the royal decision makers: "They know you can't get into bed with an elephant without a shock to the system." That is especially so now that the affair is out in the open. In the past the Saudis insisted on an "over the horizon" policy toward the U.S. -- they wanted protection but preferred that it be invisible. Faced with Saddam's legions, Fahd quickly < changed his mind. Even as U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney flew to Riyadh immediately after the invasion of Kuwait, Fahd conferred with key royals and decided to accept American...
...punch that Mikhail Gorbachev stepped up to be counted with the U.S. Japan came through pretty well; more is expected. The President knows he must recast relations with Israel, design new approaches for Syria and Iran. And those are just the tasks that he faces over his Eastern ocean horizon. At his back and underfoot is his own nation, supportive and giving for the moment, but restive and argumentative and feeling the strains of a new age dawning...
...severe drought. "There's no engine of growth in sight," says Larry Kimbell, director of the Business Forecasting Project at the U.C.L.A. School of Management. "In the past, one sector after another took the lead in sustaining the economic expansion. But we currently see no such activity on the horizon...
...archconservative, unwilling to sacrifice ideological certainties for the risks of change; Boris Yeltsin, the maverick populist, wanting to go further, faster in forcing the pace of reform. At times the two have seemed like Gorbachev's alter egos, the right and left boundary markers on his political horizon. But mostly they have been his rivals, vying to force him off the careful centrist course he has charted for himself...
Other, equally ambitious -- and more than likely passing -- trends are on the horizon. "The newest form of chic," says Hartl, "is to learn things other people don't know -- to actually read a book, for instance." That may also be short-lived because as good as it is, contemporary German life is hardly restful or contemplative. "We're still trying to define ourselves," says Schmidt. "Even in leisure we're not particularly at ease." God, in other words, has not moved to Germany...