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That Mack had a criminal record was no secret. Even so, there was horror at the viciousness and randomness of his crime as it was recounted by the victim, Pamela Small, the prosecutor and the surgeons who pieced her back together. Mack was managing an import store when Small stopped in near closing time to buy window blinds for her first apartment. Mack led her to a storeroom, where he grabbed a hammer and without provocation smashed it into her skull five times. Picking up a steak knife, he stabbed her shoulder and chest near her heart and slit...
Despite those generous words, however, Washington's aid is largely symbolic and does not signal a new, comprehensive policy toward Eastern Europe. For example, Bush promised to push for reduced import duties on certain Polish products, but the goods covered under the President's pledge amount to as little as $3.5 million out of a total of more than $400 million in Polish exports to the U.S. And loans of some $500 million from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have yet to be approved...
Consider, too, Bush's decisions surrounding the import of automatic weapons. Again, drug shootings had become a major public issue, with Washington--Bush's place of residence--making headlines as the nation's murder capital. Bush balked on using the issue as an opportunity to make a public stand, and only issued his mediocre response--a temporary ban on some automatic weapons after considerable public uproar...
...apartment to our standards is $100,000, if you can find one. And to keep the Western employees sane, you have to fly them out of the country at least four times a year." Because employees feel deprived of their comforts, some companies provide allowances, so that personnel can import such hard-to- find items as toothpaste, fruit, toilet paper and fresh vegetables...
While the price of petroleum is still a long way from its $35-a-bbl. peak in 1981, the U.S. is sliding back to a level of dependence on foreign sources not seen since the oil-shock days of the 1970s. January petroleum imports averaged 8.1 million bbl. a day, up almost 21% from a year ago and surpassing domestic production (8 million bbl.) for the first time in more than a decade. The import surge has hampered efforts to shrink the U.S. trade deficit, and rising prices have aggravated inflationary pressure...