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Americans have always tended to overpersonalize hostile forces in the world. The vilification of Saddam Hussein is only the latest example. His mug shot now hangs on the walls of various U.S. government offices in Washington. There it joins those of other comandantes, party bosses and maximum leaders who make up the U.S.'s most-wanted list...
...best bet, analysts agree, is to try to wait out the opposition: use his 20,000 hostages for maximum political impact, probe for weaknesses, and leave the next move up to the U.S. and its allies. All week long, Saddam has been testing the other side's nerves. He has pushed hard at Western determination to keep embassies in Kuwait open in the face of harsh Iraqi threats. He is running his tankers through the international armada, pressing to see if they will be forcibly stopped. Both these gambits could easily set off a military clash. At the same time...
...first name. Collor, says his chief of staff, Marcos Coimbra, "is secure, responsible, determined." Others charge that Collor is too autocratic. Says Herbert de Souza, who runs a left-wing think , tank in Rio: "He's like a doctor who tells us he's going to cause us the maximum pain and suffering, but it's for our own good...
...Sann. Some officials are ready for direct negotiations with Hun Sen, whom Washington has, until now, dismissed as a mere puppet of Vietnam. Baker himself suggested to the President two weeks ago that talks be opened with the Cambodian Prime Minister. In a decision made in typical Bush fashion -- maximum secrecy, high domestic political content -- Bush approved the move to withdraw diplomatic support of the guerrilla coalition but would go no further for now. That was still good news for those officials at the State Department, led by Under Secretary for Political Affairs Robert Kimmitt, who have been arguing...
...pressure as a continuum: the higher the reading, the greater the risk of stroke and heart disease. But for practical purposes, doctors often set a cutoff point at 140/90, urging patients whose pressure is above that level to seek treatment. (The 140 is a measure of systolic pressure, the maximum force with which the heart expels blood; the 90 indicates diastolic pressure, the strength of blood flow between beats.) But in this study of nearly 1,000 patients, the researchers found that even people with a mean blood pressure of 130/94 already showed the warning signs of cardiovascular problems...