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President Bush could make the nightmare all the more likely if he decides -- as some of his aides and key Congressmen are urging -- to start sending U.S. arms to the non-Communist resistance forces. Under present circumstances, and under current U.S. policy, that "lethal assistance" would be directed against Phnom Penh, not the Khmer Rouge...
...billed as the world's fastest supercomputers, even though the machines will not be available until June 1990. Cray discounts NEC's claim to top speed, contending that such measurements are based on "theoretical peak performance" figures rather than a practical application. NEC insists that the SX-3's key elements have been tested...
...prime suspect in the drug-related torture and slaying of twelve people just across the border. The extradition process is usually governed by individual treaties between countries, each with its own special provisions. The U.S. alone has signed agreements with more than 100 nations, though not with some key countries like the U.S.S.R. or Iran. Suspected drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria remains in Colombia because that country has yet to properly ratify its treaty with...
Furet views contemporary France as a "republic of the center" in which a consensus has emerged in favor of market economics combined with broad social services. "Left-right rhetoric today does not correspond to reality," he says. "France has buried its civil war." Three key changes explain why: the Fifth Republic finally established a strong, stabilizing presidency; the appeal of the Communist Party has withered; and the old antagonism between the Roman Catholic church and state has eased. "The left is in power precisely because it renounced its revolutionary culture," he says...
...chapter in American social and economic history: it shows how the medium worked its way into the American home and what changes it wrought there. In the view of curator Larry Bird, who wrote the show's text, television was not just a masterpiece of marketing, it was a key shaper of the postwar consumer age. TV helped induce Americans, still reeling from the Depression and a world war, to start buying again...