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Sometimes bravado can mask a crisis. A certain haughtiness surrounded the announcement last week by California Governor Pete Wilson that he would not take part in the Iowa caucuses, scheduled for Feb. 12. One of his cheerleaders, Massachusetts Governor William Weld, described it as a strategic "political decision." An important and deep-pocketed group of Wall Street yuppies--drawn to Wilson's pro-choice stance and fiscal conservatism--applauded his abandonment of a state they feel belongs to the religious right. But bravado can do only so much in the face of turmoil...
...also features first editions and a plaster life mask of the poet done when he was 19 by painter Benjamin Haydon...
...stop the stomach from churning out corrosive juices rather than just neutralizing them after they have formed. They cannot provide immediate relief, but their effects tend to be long-lasting--which has some critics of the OTC trend worried. They fear that prolonged, unsupervised use of H2 antagonists could mask such serious problems as gastric reflux, in which stomach acids back up into the esophagus and eat away at its inner lining...
...share of federal welfare monies to the states, Clinton defended Washington's role as crucial to poor children. "I believe we ought to have a continued partnership," the President told the National Governors' Association in Burlington, Vermont. "I am opposed to welfare reform that is really just a mask forcongressional budget cutting." Dole, who spoke earlier, said he would introduce legislation by week's end to convert Aid to Families with Dependent Children and some child care and job training programs into block grants. TIME's Sam Allis says Dole's plan drew enthusiastic support today from...
...more than two decades after his return from Vietnam, he has re-experienced the most terrifying event of his life several times a week as a waking dream. "It was a night ambush," he remembers. "The first seven guys to my right were machine-gunned down. My gas mask was shot right off my hip. That was my first fire fight." Bill knew his flashbacks weren't real-but they seemed so real that it made no difference. "I didn't know what was happening," he says. "The biggest fear I had was that I was crazy...