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...Yeltsin to resign, demanding a greater share of power and disdainfully offering the President guarantees that he would not be prosecuted or harassed once he left office. More troubling still, the communists, led by Gennadi Zyuganov, prepared to parlay the failure of Russia's cutthroat capitalism into a rollback of the reforms that, for better or worse, have been credited to Yeltsin's account, such as a freely convertible ruble, a tight money supply, even some industrial privatization...
...emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to where they were in 1990, but would not do so until sometime between 11 and 16 years from now. Yet back in 1992 the U.S., along with most other countries, had signed a treaty committing industrial nations to such a rollback by the year 2000--a point not lost on delegates attending a pre-Kyoto planning conference last week in Bonn. "Disappointing and insufficient," is how Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, head of the German delegation, characterized Clinton's proposals. And the European Union issued a statement saying in part, "The U.S. proposal...
...seemed that 1990s America was growing as disillusioned with divorce as 1960s America had grown with marriage. As the backlash against divorce progressed, state legislatures across the country, in an as yet unsuccessful attempt to reduce what was still the world's highest divorce rate, called for a rollback of no-fault divorce laws and even for premarital waiting periods. Last week, in a melodramatic flourish, a North Carolina jury added to the simmering debate by taking the side of an abandoned wife, ordering the "other woman" to pay her $1 million (see following story). Though the decision was based...
This is not a novel idea, and if that were the end of my story, I would tear up my ACLU membership card and join the Republican party wehre I could urge the rollback of welfare and the increase of police power in an effort to force personal responsiblity back on the American people. But to do so would be neither American, nor very responsible. What scares me a little this Fourth of July weekend is the feeling that there is no solution and, what's that there is no solution and, what's worse, that the decline in both...
...savage policies. The occupation was greeted not by vociferous protest by the United States, but with tacit assent at the highest levels of the American government. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 assured our ally, Indonesia, that the U.S. would not contest nor attempt to rollback its illegal annexation...