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...cold war pushes military contractors into the sharpest cutbacks since World War II. Still reeling from the loss of 200,000 jobs since Ronald Reagan's military buildup peaked in 1987, the industry could lose 500,000 more jobs by 1995. "There's going to be a rapid shrinkage in the next 36 months," says Howard Rubel, who follows defense and aerospace for the C.J. Lawrence securities firm. "Whole divisions are going to vanish. Long-term planning now means 'How are we going to get people out the door tomorrow...
These days, the al-Mullas' future looks bright: the demand for new automobiles is outstripping the supply, and that is perhaps the most visible sign that the consumer society of the Persian Gulf city-state has been restored to prosperity. The pace of reconstruction has been stunningly rapid. Essential services have been resumed; most government buildings have been repaired; ports have reopened. The debris-and-body-choked "Highway of Death" leading north toward Iraq has been cleared and opened to civilian traffic. Supermarket shelves are restocked with imported gourmet delicacies, and shops sell the latest fashions...
...South Vietnamese army's (ARVN) handout by $42 million a year, above the $225 million already slated for the ARVN, Kennedy wrote "Why so little?" in the margins. Bundy told the State Department that his President was "really very eager that [Vietnam] should have the highest priority for rapid and energetic action...
...heroically against the August coup, and supporting self-determination for the non-Russian nations. He has expressed a firm intention to resolve outstanding geopolitical issues in ways consistent with our interests. And with the freeing of most prices on Jan. 2, he has staked his political life on the rapid creation of a free-market economy in Russia...
...quick to point out that the two Koreas had seemed on the brink of peace before -- most notably in 1972 -- and failed to achieve real reconciliation. Nor, despite Seoul's unilateral concession on nukes, did the latest agreement mention the region's most pressing security concern: the North's rapid progress toward developing a nuclear bomb. Even Washington, South Korea's closest ally, coupled its pro forma congratulations with signals of misgivings over the lack of progress on the nuclear front...