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...conservative rallying cry, Zhao began his speech by demanding boosts in grain production. Lashing out at consumers who are "given to pleasure seeking," he called for more unglamorous projects, such as the construction of roads, bridges and energy facilities. Zhao railed against "blindly seeking an excessively high growth rate" lest China's inflation, which is now running at a roughly 6% annual clip, get completely out of hand. His remarks seemed aimed at the policies of the once influential Hu, who last week was re-elected / to the 157-member presidium that heads the People's Congress. Seated directly behind...
...like a dog running in circles looking for its tail," said one general. He could hardly have been comforted by Defense Minister Rafael Ileto's announcement last week that he planned to keep 40% of the military's 125,000 troops out of sight until after the May elections, lest voters feel intimidated. Said Ileto: "If we escalate at this time, there will be a feeling of insecurity...
Since the treaty was signed in 1972, the nuclear peace has rested on the superpowers' willingness to forgo large-scale strategic defenses, lest the accumulation of shields on one side provoke a proliferation of nuclear spears on the other. Secretary of State George Shultz and his chief arms-control adviser Paul Nitze got President Reagan to declare that the SDI program is a research program permitted by the ABM treaty. But in 1985 other officials -- particularly Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle and State Department Legal Adviser Abraham Sofaer -- launched a campaign to "reinterpret" the pact. According to them, nothing...
...calls for specially appointed personnel to administer the tests in designated rest rooms. After presenting a photo ID, workers will be asked to remove their coats, and their briefcases and purses will be taken from them before they enter the stalls. Water in the toilets must be dyed blue, lest employees substitute H2O for their urine. The temperature of the specimens will be tested within four minutes, to make sure that workers are proffering fresh urine rather than "clean" samples they might have purchased...
...military purposes. Guatemala, for example, has used our economic aid to further its genocide of the indigenous Indian population. And U.S. economic aid plays a vital role in bolstering the El Salvadoran military, its death squads, and its bombings of peasant villages in the northern part of the country. Lest we forget, much of the "humanitarian" aid sent to the contras has never been accounted...