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Texas cannot be discounted by either party. Texas has voted for the winner of 12 of the last 13 elections, including a streak of four straight. But Bush, banking on his manufactured nativity, assumes that he will win the largest state in the South without any problem...
...cities that are the main threat to our status as a superpower, but our increasing dependency on foreign powers. There has been a transfer of wealth from the U.S. to Japan that could not have been imagined 25 years ago, as America fell from being the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor...
Crowded too. The U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration expects 11.9 million overseas visitors in 1988, 1.4 million more than last year's record number of arrivals. The largest contingent will come from Japan, which will send an estimated 2.8 million people, up 32% from 1987. Next in line are 1.6 million Britons (an 18% increase), 1.1 million West Germans (10%), 585,000 French (8%) and 350,000 Italians (10%). The only major countries not participating in the upsurge of tourist traffic to the U.S. are Canada and Mexico. The Canadian dollar has not gained nearly as much ground against...
...least some of the thousands of elderly Americans whose life savings are threatened by the astronomical cost of a catastrophic illness, the bill comes just in time. Last week House and Senate conferees approved the Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act, the largest expansion of Medicare since its creation 23 years ago. The new legislation is designed to prevent 31 million elderly and disabled Americans from being wiped out by the crippling cost of hospitalization. Among other things, the bill provides unlimited free hospital care after a $589 deductible is reached, a $1,400 annual limit on doctor's fees...
Dignity is a luxury during the Cannes fortnight. It rubs shoulders with outrage and excess, as film folk hawk their wares in the world's largest annual secular convocation. At the Palais, moviegoers must dress formally for the evening screenings; at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go, a porno star who is also a member of the Italian Parliament performs a sex act with a stuffed animal. The cafes percolate with erudite analyses of Marcel Ophuls's 4 1/2-hr. documentary / on Klaus Barbie, while back at the Eden Roc, Producer Edward Pressman discusses his new movie about Claus von Bulow...