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...gathering was to consider a maddeningly complex peace proposal put forth last month by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council that requires approval by all the Cambodian "parties" before it can go into effect. The main item on the Jakarta agenda was the plan's call for creation of a Supreme National Council intended to symbolize Cambodian nationhood during a long transition to peace...
...shortage. To ease tensions in the army, he issued a decree on improving the legal and economic rights of military personnel. A committee of top officials from Moscow and the republics has been set to work by Gorbachev on drafting a new treaty of the union. But one major item of business, so important that it may determine Gorbachev's political future and the very fate of the country, awaits his return this week: finishing the draft of a new plan for introducing a market economy...
...problems at factories, outdated equipment, transport troubles and an unexpected rise in demand for bread -- sounded all too familiar to Russians, who are already fuming over the scarcity of cigarettes. As the government daily Izvestia sardonically noted: "We should not be surprised by the fact that yet one more item has gone on the list of shortages -- we should be surprised that anything can still be found in the stores...
...remember the last time I was in a mall." The couch in the living room is from a friend who bought a new one; the tables come from her parents, the hutch from his. "Everything here has a story to it," says Jennifer. The one new item is a clock on the wall with a picture of the Grateful Dead on the face. They spotted it one afternoon at a local fair, and Jeff, a diehard "Dead Head," fell in love. At $15 he resisted the urge, until Jennifer insisted that he buy it. "Sometimes," she told him, "you just...
...despite this tax increase--the largest in state history--McGovern said the budget would be out of balance, requiring Dukakis to impose cuts with line-item vetoes. McGovern had estimated that Dukakis might need to strike about $300 million worth of items from the budget...