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...even with an American security umbrella, the Saudis would find it difficult to go all out against Iraq. The underpopulated kingdom would be risking attack by Saddam, from bombs, rockets and poison-gas-filled missiles to invasion. More than that, the Saudis would be rejecting attempts at an "Arab solution" and accepting the high-profile alliance with the U.S. they have always tried to avoid. Saudi diplomats said privately last week that such an alliance was dangerous for them because of America's links with Israel...
American leaders believe that oil kingdom could be the next target...
...Barrowman of the U.S. improved his own mark in the 200-meter breaststroke, and a great comeback story, as 1988 U.S. Olympian Matt Biondi emerged from semiretirement to win five medals, four gold. That was more excitement than track achieved despite having such U.S. stars as Carl Lewis, Roger Kingdom, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Evelyn Ashford, who, at 33, finished just out of the medals in the 100-meter dash in the twilight of her exceptional career...
...years, battered by the conflicting demands of its larger neighbors, Korea shut out the world and became a "Hermit Kingdom." Today that is neither possible nor desirable. South Korea's future is bright: economic prosperity should ease the transition to full democracy and lessen military dependence on the U.S., resulting in a more balanced partnership that will be welcomed by both nations. For North Korea, however, the immediate future is likely to be brutish. Until the kind of change that transformed Eastern Europe comes to this Asian outpost, reunification of the peninsula remains a dream for both North and South...
...good jazz in Warsaw, take in a performance at what is possibly the best puppet theater in the world in Prague, and go to an opera in Budapest for about what it would cost for an intermission drink anywhere in the West. In Cluj, the capital of the medieval kingdom of Transylvania in Romania, three decades of Ceausescu misrule have emptied shops and condemned people to a dreary life in ill-lighted, poorly heated apartments. But the Ceausescu era did not kill the arts. At a recent Rachmaninoff concert performed by the Cluj Philharmonic Orchestra, the pianist was superb. Cost...