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...economy relies on the military for hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs and the employment of millions of troops and bureaucrats. This situation is outdated; the only other large nations with such a significant dependance on the military are in the collapsed Warsaw Pact...
...this be? How can it harm America's interests if Japan agrees, as it did in a recent deal on semiconductors, to expand America's share of the Japanese market? It is easy to see how a pact of that sort may damage Japan. If Japan simply removes trade barriers, its own producers may lose business. If the Japanese government compels importers to purchase American goods, then Japan's consumers may have to pay more, or make do with poorer quality goods. It is also easy to see why third parties, such as exporters in Europe or Asia, may suffer...
...delicate moment in South Africa's ever painful attempt to remake itself into a multiracial democracy. In a Zulu village near Port Shepstone in southern Natal province, 10 young A.N.C. members were slaughtered last week in a savage hand-grenade, shotgun and machete attack, despite a peace pact between A.N.C. and Inkatha Freedom Party representatives just a week before. Elsewhere, police and military forces were on alert for possible Easter-weekend attacks on whites by the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the black-power group the Pan-Africanist Congress. Political violence over the past three years...
Tucci argues that his organization wants to abolish totally the practice of abortion through legal and nonviolent means. Boot-camp volunteers were required to sign a pact of nonviolence before every demonstration. And lessons were not given, as far as reporters allowed to witness some of the classroom sessions could determine, in several of the antiabortion faction's most extreme tactics: torching abortion clinics and suffusing them with noxious chemicals...
...intent on not repeating Gates' mistakes of last year, when police were deployed to riot zones too late and in insufficient numbers. In addition to providing his force with new gear, including bullet-resistant helmets, rubber bullets and spray cans of disabling gas, Williams brokered a mutual-aid pact with other Southern California cities. In the event of trouble, up to 20,000 out-of-town reinforcements could be moved...