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...really ended. In the latest sign of hard times, the Commerce Department last week said the U.S. gross national product dipped 0.1% in the second quarter this year, marking the third straight quarter of decline. While many economists still predict that the U.S. will show at least slight growth for the third quarter, the report indicated just how shaky the economy has become. And consumers, whose purchases account for two-thirds of the GNP, could become increasingly reluctant to spend. The government said last week that the personal income of Americans fell 0.1% in July, breaking a string of five...
...Shamir, the agreement to attend the conference required only a slight shift in emphasis: he simply said yes, Israel would sit down at the peace parley provided the Palestinian delegation was acceptable, rather than no, it would not attend if the Palestinian group was not acceptable. Beyond that, the stone-faced Prime Minister gave away little. At meetings with his right-wing supporters, Shamir emphasized that he had not agreed to sacrifice -- or even discuss -- the status of Jerusalem and that there was no requirement for Israel to halt construction of new settlements in the territories or lift the occupation...
...State Department official helpfully explained -- was never intended to signal the immediate resumption of allied aerial strikes against Iraq. The arrival last Saturday of yet another U.N. inspection team in Baghdad gives Saddam additional breathing space. But the truth is that the current appetite for renewed warfare is slight. Bush does not want to seem trigger-happy when he arrives in Moscow this week for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. And Arab allies, whose cooperation is crucial to any Middle East peace conference, have signaled their distaste for new bombardments. "Most of our people think the Iraqis have suffered enough already...
Assad can see that he has little or no chance of forcibly taking back the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in the 1967 war. The last slight hope for Soviet support for another war was snuffed out by a personal message Assad received from Gorbachev early in July. Its proposals, almost identical with those Bush had made, strongly reinforced U.S. arguments. Soviet officials delicately avoid calling it pressure, but one explains, "Gorbachev just sent a letter expressing our feeling that cooperation with the U.S. would be constructive and important...
...handsome cast performs these epiphanies in grand, graceful comic style; the actors know this is not so much real life as ideal life. And Robert, whose reputation previously rested on slight farces such as The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, presents the vignettes with an assured briskness the viewer barely has time to appreciate. They are like Marcel and his brother: eager and bright, soliciting our attention, trying to crowd each other out. But gently, no elbows. Again like Marcel, these films are at once playful and spectacularly well behaved...