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...Bush vs. Saddam. From the beginning of the Persian Gulf showdown, Bush personalized the conflict. He implied that Saddam's removal from power, if not from this world, was as much an American objective as his eviction from Kuwait. He denounced Saddam as "worse than Hitler." When hurled from the bully pulpit, such epithets have, as they say in Washington, policy implications. They create expectations and raise questions: Would Hitler have been allowed to remain the Fuhrer of Germany after World...
...building accelerates, the U.S. girds for a showdown over loan guarantees...
Since the end of the cold war, the Security Council, with its mandate to deal with matters of war and peace, has functioned reasonably well, especially during the showdown with Saddam Hussein over his invasion of Kuwait. But the Security Council is still a vestige of World War II. Its five permanent members -- the U.S., Britain, France, China and Russia (the successor state to the U.S.S.R.) -- were allies against Germany and Japan, two countries that are now economic superpowers in their own right...
...trip was billed as a global showdown, an expedition designed to "level the playing field," as American businessmen are wont to say. Yet even before George Bush's new 747 touched down at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, Japan and its supporters had deftly weakened the American campaign to win trade concessions by raising a touchy issue: large disparities in the money paid to American CEOs and their Japanese counterparts...
Harvard opened up the tournament against the Yale "B" team on Friday, January 10, handily defeating the Elis 5-0. Successive blankings of Princeton and Pennsylvania on Saturday set the Crimson up for Sunday's showdown against Mexico...