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...skills as negotiator and tactician proved essential in putting together the anti- Saddam alliance. But when Kuwait was liberated, the Administration's feeble political planning for the war's aftermath was laid bare. Concerned that a weakened Iraq might leave a vacuum for Iranian power to fill and prompt Turkish Kurds to join their Iraqi compatriots in a breakaway country, Washington stood back while Saddam turned his guns against Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ites. Comments an Administration official: "When Bush and Baker confront the breakup of a nation-state, whether it's Iraq, Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union, they instinctively...
Those of us in the business of putting words and pictures on paper are frequently reminded of the strong reactions that readers have to the stories we publish. A story in TIME might prompt a reader to fire off a letter to our editors, call a Congressman or, in the case of Paul LaBell, do something astonishing and profound. A New York City print publisher, LaBell makes his living surrounded by images meant to stir the emotions. But that didn't prepare him for photographer Michael Springer's picture of starving Sudanese in our Dec. 5, 1988, issue...
Three weeks after its release, Oliver Stone's film JFK continues to stir passions and debate, and to prompt calls for the release of secret government files on the Kennedy assassination. Last week the controversy drew a response from President Bush, who said while traveling in Australia that although he had not seen the movie, he had no reason to doubt the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy. While no new evidence has emerged, the film has focused attention on the band of mostly self-appointed experts who zealously pursue theories...
...more should be done, and urgently. The U.S. and its allies could make recognition of Ukraine and other former Soviet republics, and distribution of badly needed economic aid, conditional on a prompt agreement to maintain effective control of nuclear weapons. The West should then offer to pay for, and send experts to supervise, the disabling of as many weapons as the republics want to shed. Great masses of warheads could quickly be rendered harmless by removing their tritium bottles and krytron triggers. And the key is to move immediately. The forces of dissolution in the former Soviet Union are picking...
Ironically, if the prospects for peace in this perpetually troubled region have never looked brighter, the need for a prompt resolution of the Middle East's age-old hostilities has seldom seemed less urgent. The cold war is over, so U.S. fears of a regional tussle escalating into a superpower conflagration have subsided. Immediate threats to Israel's security are not much in evidence. Syria, despite a potent army, is no longer able to tap Moscow for funds and is wooing Washington to attract trade and investment. Egypt has a de jure peace with Israel, Jordan a de facto...