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...cold war competition has evaporated, but the world has not necessarily grown safer. While the West no longer lives in fear of a surprise attack from the Soviet Union, it worries very seriously when and where some of the 27,000 nuclear warheads on former Soviet soil might slip into the hands of irresponsible governments or terrorists elsewhere on the planet. More than 25 countries are on the road to building weapons of mass destruction -- or buying them from those who have too many arms and too little money. Every industrial state is trying to steal another's high-tech...
...making him wary, then openly hostile. As his dreams of a presidency faded, said a relief worker, "Aidid was just itching to push the U.N. to the limit." While he never expected his belligerence to culminate in an international warrant for his arrest, he preferred to fight rather than slip into anonymity...
Democrats and Republicans generally agree that public demand will force Congress to pass something before the 1994 elections. The White House, however, is still making up its mind what to propose. The Administration has already missed three target dates for unveiling its plan and this week a fourth will slip by: no one still thinks Tuesday, June 22, will be "launch day." Skepticism seems to be growing along with the delays. Until last week, the American Medical Association had been careful to talk a publicly supportive line, but now it vows to sue against any attempt to impose medical price...
...Administration, which was eager to support Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, and was even more eager to assure itself access to oil at cheap prices, turned a blind eye to BNL's activities and allowed missile and nuclear technology that helped Iraq's missile and nuclear development to slip out of the country...
...safety valve is Cuba's surging black market, conducted in both pesos and dollars that often come from relatives living in the U.S. In Havana vendors go door to door selling meat and milk at 40 to 50 times the official cost. Imported TVs, priced at $150 apiece, slip out the back door of government warehouses for an additional $10 bribe. Illegal antennas bought with dollars pick up U.S. channels. So pervasive is the dollar that workers in the beach resort of Varadero are now permitted to use their dollar tips to buy imported goods at an experimental store. Later...