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Grocery stores ran low on bottled water, batteries, canned tuna and bread as people laid in supplies. Homeowners covered windows and doors with plywood and shatter-proofing hurricane tape. Offshore oil workers left their rigs in the Gulf of Mexico...
...Republican strategy is to keep Dukakis on the defensive by attempting to shatter his sphinxlike composure. Republicans complain that Dukakis is hiding his liberal record behind a vague platform. If the G.O.P. can keep up the pressure, explains a Bush strategist, "you may just see a Michael Dukakis you don't like. He is talking in nice pictures under false pretenses, and we're not going to let him get away with that." Moreover, Bush must overcome a negative image with a third or more of the electorate -- and what better way than to stick Dukakis with some negatives...
...devastating effect in World War I. In April 1915, German soldiers surreptitiously installed 5,730 cylinders of liquid chlorine in the trenches along a four-mile section of no-man's-land near the Belgian town of Ypres. Using a heavy artillery barrage, the Germans were able to shatter the cylinders and release the lethal gas. In a single afternoon, 5,000 French troops were killed and an additional 10,000 were injured. The carnage in Flanders was commemorated in a poem by Wilfred Owen...
...strikes presented the government with a painful dilemma. Caving in to the widespread demands for more pay would derail plans for economic restructuring. Yet the use of force against strikers would shatter the government's pretensions of openness and democratization, ruining any chance of winning public support for the proposed reforms. The seeming failure of such innovations to produce concrete results and gain popular backing in Poland does not augur well for the future of restructuring efforts elsewhere in the East bloc, including the Soviet Union...
...operation or conducting heavy layoffs (500 workers or a third of the labor force). Arguments for and against the proposal are less than compelling. Democrats and unionists contend that notice is an act of simple humanitarianism that allows workers time for adjustment to a blow that would otherwise shatter their lives. Says Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum: "It's time to mandate a little human decency." But many companies already give notice voluntarily or shut down a plant in stages. The AFL-CIO, which depends on the Labor Department for information, has trouble proving its case through either hard numbers...