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...from Moraine, Ohio, to Toluca, Mexico, indicate that GM may be planning to head for the friendlier, less unionized climes south of the border. The advantages include lower wage costs and relief from fuel- economy regulations. But amid the automaker's current "Buy American" campaign, there is the ironic prospect of some General Motors products eventually being reclassified as imports from Mexico...
Some Canadian-policy intellectuals have discussed the prospect of violence. Canadians shouldn't worry about that either: they aren't Serbs and Croats. In a way, that may be part of their problem. "Every society," said Oliver Wendell Holmes, "rests on the death of men." Canadians fought bravely in Britain's wars (twice against us), but they have rarely fought one another. As a consequence, they may not feel the same stake in their society that Americans earned, at such grim cost...
...crisis could go any number of ways, including petering out. Quebeckers may not want to risk a leap into the dark of independence during a recession. (Even a Quebecois economist admits that sovereignty would involve transitional costs of as much as 10% of Quebec's GDP -- a prospect that separatist politicians carefully soft-pedal.) It is possible, finally, that some deal will be struck either by Mulroney or even by western politicians willing to give Quebec its head in return for a redesigned federal government...
...Baker's latest ploy succeeds, it could be one more significant step toward an Arab-Israeli peace -- a prospect that has moved from the unthinkable to the merely improbable as a result of his shrewd and tireless prodding of both sides. The Secretary has repeatedly demonstrated a flair for problem solving, not only by launching the Middle East talks but also by working out an agreement with Congress on Nicaragua in 1989 and by helping stitch together last year's coalition against Saddam Hussein. Baker may not fashion foreign policy single-handedly -- certainly not in an Administration where the President...
Suddenly, Morristown was faced with the prospect of a legal donnybrook that would cost more than $1 million. "We knew that some of the cops stood to lose their homes to pay damages if we lost in court," says Kathleen O'Neill Margiotta, then town council president. Last November the municipality threw in the towel and settled...