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Bill Clinton never experienced hostile fire in Vietnam or anywhere else, but last week the future Commander in Chief learned firsthand what baptism by fire means. His affirmation of his campaign pledge to lift the Pentagon's ban on homosexuals serving in the military triggered such anger, especially in the Pentagon, that he was forced to add that the step would be taken only after consultation with "a lot of people...
...WINDS OF CHANGE -- AND MONEY -- SEEMED CERtain to lift the San Francisco Giants baseball team out of their drafty, weather-beaten stadium and carry them to a new air-conditioned dome and a $115 million buyout offer in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then the wind shifted. Baseball team owners voted 9 to 4 to keep the Giants put, opting for a $100 million counteroffer and a pledge for a new stadium. "It's a game of tradition," trumpeted Chicago Cubs owner Stanton Cook in explaining the vote...
Advocates on both sides of the subsidy issue acknowledge that in the long run, free trade benefits everyone. Seven successful GATT negotiations since 1947 have helped lift global commerce from $57 billion to nearly $3.5 trillion. The U.S. and the E.C. may very well patch together a compromise. "My prediction is that France will back off just enough to make a deal possible," said Lawrence Veit, international economist at Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. in New York City...
...course other matters are at issue. The future of French politics, for one. Also the balance of power within the European Community, and Washington's determination to stop playing Uncle Sucker in trade. Oh yes, and a grand trade deal that eventually might give a huge lift to the world economy...
Bill Clinton becomes President without the warrant of a depression that emboldened F.D.R. or the lift of economic expansion that energized L.B.J. Times are hard; they are not desperate. But it is the long shadow and the troubled legacy of the Great Society -- not its policy failures so much as its political failure -- that Clinton must overcome. While he assumes the presidency with a detailed plan for domestic change, his vision will have to be implemented on the cheap: not a Great Society but, if his luck holds, a Pretty Good Society...