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...other prong in Washington's strategy is the credible threat of military intervention. No one knows whether Clinton will follow through with an invasion, but the steady drip of leaks has created an atmosphere of frantic speculation that, combined with a dearth of hard facts, makes for effective psychological war. Amid all the uncertainty, Port-au-Prince is swept by sensational rumors, such as last week's report that the U.S. embassy had been passing out iridescent paint so that Americans could identify their homes to invading troops...
...With fork prong, engrave pentagram onto the surface of the mixture for the "devilled" look...
...market is to let the pros play it for us, through no-load mutual funds. Our job is personal finance: contriving somehow to spend less than we earn, and then deciding, in broad strokes, how to deploy the balance. In this regard, I have long advocated a four-prong strategy. But how to weight those prongs right...
...economic front, he has launched a campaign to reduce Mexico's bloated statist economy and attract foreign investment that has earned high marks from Mexican businessmen and international lenders. But in throwing the country open to inspection by potential investors, Salinas has unwittingly invited scrutiny of the other major prong of his modernization drive: his pledge to build a true multiparty democracy...
...Exocet missile three years ago. (A mistake, said Baghdad, and apologized.) Saddam sees himself as the rightful ruler of the Arab world -- and he is embarked on a nuclear-weapons development program that the CIA says could be successful in three to five years. Thus the unstated third prong of Bush's strategy is actually to topple Saddam, perhaps by letting him stew long enough for domestic Iraqi discontent to reach new heights. "Let him off the hook now," says a White House aide, "and sooner or later he will be back, and we will be too -- back to square...