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...equipped like hospitals, an imposition so costly that many would have been forced to close their doors. Both sides thought the case was the one this term most likely to give the court an opportunity to repeal Roe. But after weeks of negotiation, a settlement was announced last week between the state and the American Civil Liberties Union, which was representing a doctor who had challenged the rules. The state dropped the equipment requirements while retaining its right to inspect clinics and enforce health and safety rules...
...demanding last month that Congress produce a deficit-trimming budget without resort to accounting gimmickry or tax increases, George Bush knew he might as well have ordered the sun not to rise. Last week, as Congress raced to adjourn before the Thanksgiving holiday, it sent the President a final 1990 budget bill lopping $14.7 billion off the deficit -- thanks, of course, to gimmicks and a $5.6 billion increase in what people outside the Washington Beltway usually call taxes. Without a murmur of protest or the slightest hint of a blush, Bush agreed to sign the measure into...
Like Ronald Reagan, who managed to preside in relative secrecy over $90 billion in "revenue enhancements" after the well-publicized (and disastrous) 1981 tax cuts, Bush has some bipartisan support for his antitax posture. Democrat James Sasser of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, insisted last week, "What we've done here does not waddle enough to be called ducks." Perhaps. But since the nearly $6 billion in revenue enhancements enacted last week will rise to $30 billion over the next five years, taxpayers may be forgiven if they exercise their right to squawk...
...repairing the physical destruction is only the beginning; next comes the damage control. Dec. 15 marks the start of the high tourist season, and if tourists do not come back, neither will the islands. More than 10 million visitors came last year, leaving behind $7.3 billion. After Hugo, cancellations poured in, even for destinations not touched by the storm. "Part of our problem is fighting people's terrible knowledge of geography," says John Bell, executive vice president of the Caribbean Hotel Association. "There were groups dropping out of trips to Aruba and Barbados, which were hundreds of miles from Hugo...
Amid all these messes, she made some memorable movies, including Gilda and Miss Sadie Thompson. But the final years were awful. She abandoned her last film role in 1972. Eight years later, she was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease, and Yasmin cared for her until her death in 1987. Leaming's prose can gush ("the incomparable Hermes Pan," "the fabulous Eartha Kitt") and regularly descends to write-by-the-numbers cliche. But the material is poignant, another reminder of the chasm that can exist between public images and private pain...