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This will come as news to Poles and Czechs and East Germans. But grant that outside Eastern Europe, in the Third World, the Soviets are indeed falling back. Why is that happening? Conventional wisdom has it that Gorbachev needs to rebuild his economy and restructure his society. He cannot do that while expending energy, treasure and occasional blood in foreign adventures. Internal retrenchment requires external calm. He needs a respite: a stable international arena and good relations with the U.S. Hence the cold war, like other old thinking, must...
...every day starting at 3 a.m. for license plates that specifically identify the car owner's camp or town. At Gaza military headquarters, other Palestinians waited for proof-of-tax-payment stamps that they need to obtain travel permits and birth certificates. All the red tape is intended to rebuild Gaza's dependence on Israel and, incidentally, provide the government with up-to-date information on Palestinians living in the strip...
...subtle message: by backing George Herbert Walker Bush, that Bible-believing, God-fearing Episcopalian, "you'll be doing your Christian duty in helping to rebuild our nation and its institutions on the God-given foundation of Biblical truths...
Even if a cease-fire takes hold, however, the long-term outlook for petroleum prices is far from settled. Economists estimate that the two countries will need a total of at least $300 billion to rebuild their ravaged economies, twice their annual gross national products. The simplest solution is to sell more oil. Analysts predict that Iraq could nearly double its current production of 2.4 billion a day by 1990; Iran's daily capacity might jump from 2.5 million to 6 million. If they pump that much oil to pay for reconstruction, prices will plunge...
Read invest as the new Democratic code word for spend; rarely have so many potentially budget-busting programs been separated by so little punctuation. Dukakis is the apostle of "targeted economic development," while Jackson has . stressed creating public service jobs to rebuild America's "infrastructure." The platform neglects to explain how "fiscal responsibility" might be achieved. But Jackson is likely to wage a convention floor fight on this point to insert a pledge to raise the taxes of the wealthy. Dukakis' likely response: "Go ahead, make...