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Discussing the Persian Gulf, he said, "We ought to go there and stabilize things. If that means military support, then that's what we should...
Human rights is one of four items on the summit agenda, along with regional conflicts such as Afghanistan, Nicaragua and the Persian Gulf, bilateral relations and arms control...
Even as Saddam Hussein spoke, his air force was busy in the Persian Gulf battering the shipping that keeps Tehran's coffers filled with oil wealth. Baghdad claimed to have hit eleven tankers off the coast of Iran during the week. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, meanwhile, called all able-bodied male Iranians to combat, a signal that Tehran may be ready to launch a major offensive...
After the memorial service, there is a picnic and church bazaar. While women swap dessert recipes and sewing hints, men exchange investment tips and talk soccer. Everybody gossips. Weightier topics are also touched on: AIDS, the Persian Gulf war, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart's recent Brazilian tour. What distinguishes the occasion is its civility. Even the singing of hymns at the service seems contained. Perhaps the restraint stems partly from the absence of hard liquor and beer. "As practicing Protestants, many of us think alcohol is unholy and unhealthy," says John Homer Steagall, 68, a retired Singer sewing-machine general manager...
Jackson has proposed to convene a Camp-Davidlike summit of congressional and gubernatorialleaders to solve the deficit problem and said aU.S. pull-out from the Persian Gulf will alsoreduce the debt...