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Bush paid a high political price in exchange for this thin gruel. By pressing Tokyo to commit itself to purchase specific quantities of U.S. products, Bush abandoned his long-held free-trade principles for less competitive "managed trade," in which governments agree to pressure private industries to meet preset goals. Trying typically to have it both ways, the President repeatedly warned that any departure from free trade would damage the U.S. economy, which has become increasingly dependent on sales of American exports. Arriving in Washington on Friday, he denied that the Tokyo accords were tantamount to protectionism...
CALIFORNIA GOV. Pete Wilson got scared last week. He saw long-held White House hopes wavering after rankling his conservative supporters just a bit too much in compromising on this year's budget. So he ran for cover...
...Washington the new sock-it-to-science stance is personified by Congressman Dingell, who has taken the lead in investigating the wrongdoings of researchers. Many scientists consider his intrusion into their domain dangerous because it threatens their long-held notion that science should be self-governed, self-regulated and self-policed. When Dingell asked the Secret Service to examine the notebooks in the Baltimore case for authenticity, some researchers accused him of launching a witch hunt and trying to establish "science police." Because of his badgering of scientists at congressional hearings, he has been charged with practicing McCarthyism. Says Maxine...
Gorbachev has also radically altered and accelerated the course of arms control. In all three treaties that have been concluded since he came to power -- Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) in 1987, Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) in 1990, and START this week -- he abandoned long-held Soviet claims and accepted many of the premises of the American negotiating position. The U.S.-Soviet dialogue has been rewritten accordingly...
...white racist with a gun. Undaunted, Marshall and his team laid the legal groundwork for their victory in Brown. Working again with Houston and other civil rights lawyers, Marshall had to convince the court that the 14th Amendment would not allow segregation. His problem was the court's long-held position that separate but equal facilities were constitutional. "What they set out to do was demonstrate that there was no such thing as equality with separation -- that the very act of separation stigmatized individuals," says Federal Appeals Court Judge Nathaniel Jones...