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...long-time champion of the economically and racially oppressed, Jesse Jackson would seem the ideal candidate for the populist leader of the left. But Jackson has been conspicuously quiet on the budget negotiations, in sharp contrast to his front-and-center position on most issues (such as the Persian Gulf...
...soon as President Bush ordered troops to the Persian Gulf this summer, some critics said the engagement would be another Vietnam. And as soon as activists started their campus protests this fall, some would-be historians hailed the '90s as a revival for the New Left...
Alleging massive human rights violations in Iraqi-occupied Kuwait, a new student group has broken from the policies of other on-campus organizations to take a hard line against Iraqi aggression--and for U.S. intervention--in the Persian Gulf...
Near the end of August, Darman drafted a speech for Bush linking the Persian Gulf crisis with the budget. Darman argued that the economic pressures caused by the Iraqi invasion made getting the deficit under control more important than ever. He envisioned reconvening the negotiators after Labor Day and cutting a deal in time for an announcement on Sept. 12, after Bush returned to Washington from a speedily arranged summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Kuwait to settle their differences permanently . . . and for all the states and the peoples of the region to settle the conflict that divides the Arabs from Israel." The hint of future Iraqi-Kuwaiti negotiations on such points as border disputes, ownership of oil fields and Iraqi access to the Persian Gulf was not new. But the mention of Israel seemed to contradict two months of indignant refusals from Bush to consider any link between Iraq's occupation of Kuwait and Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza...