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...White House is considering a ban on all U.S. trade with Iran to punish efforts to build a nuclear arsenal there. ButTIME Diplomatic correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the Clinton Administration previously has been opposed to an all-out embargo because the business likely would be diverted to firms in other countries that compete with American companies. McAllister expects President Clinton to opt for narrower restrictions. Clinton is expected to move swiftly on various options, including proposals to ban sales of computers and equipment with military applications to Iran, or toban importing oilfrom Iran for sales abroad -- a $4 billion market. Purchasing...
...PRESENT predicament? In the always conventional wisdom of Washington, legions of the elderly and those nearing retirement are terrified that any change, even the smallest, will lead sooner or later to slashing their none too generous government checks. And they will punish any legislator who doesn't swear to keep hands off the system with the electoral equivalent of burning at the stake. This attitude certainly exists, and not only among older Americans of modest means. Leonard Schwartz, 52, a lawyer in Austin, Texas, earns a six-figure income and has built up a sizable nest egg for the retirement...
...Mexicans wonder if he is too naive to understand the risks involved in taking on the men in the shadows. Colosio and Ruiz Massieu may have been killed, after all, simply for threatening to reduce the power of the mighty. Zedillo has already gone beyond that by threatening to punish the mighty...
...powerful Appropriations Committee chairmanship. Some GOP Senators were calling for Hatfield's head as retaliation for his vote against thebalanced budget amendment. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says a generational split surfaced in a tense, closed meeting this afternoon, with Hatfield's longtime colleagues opposing the harsh punishment. A handful of Hatfield opponents, notably GOP Senate freshmen Connie Mack of Florida and Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, were outnumbered. But Tumulty says their anger touched off a sharp debate on how to punish wayward party leaders in the future. She also warns that Hatfield still may not get off scott-free...
...those who say that only a market system can be fair to all parties, we say look again. Market systems punish the weak, those who do not have the tools to compete. And how can minorities compete when other sectors of the market conspire against them? The situation must be forcibly reversed...