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...counterattack by the services is taking shape in Washington. They have sounded out congressional support for a slowdown in the scheduled cuts. Senator Daniel Inouye, chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, says he is willing to reconsider the five-year plan. General Carl Vuono, the Army Chief of Staff, recommends a slowing of force reductions in light of the gulf war and uncertainty over the stability of the Soviet Union...
...this increase in February doesn't reflect that philosophy. It's an 18% increase in a time when inflation was less than that, mainly accounted for by 1988, in which our costs went up at twice the rate of inflation because of congressional actions, lack of productivity and a slowdown in the growth of volume after a postal-rate increase. Yet in 1990 we operated at half the rate of inflation. So this enormous entity can be moved, and it is being moved...
While the trend began with the economic slowdown last year, the gulf war is hastening it. Companies are growing increasingly nervous about airing frivolous product ads alongside the brutal images of warfare. The fear of offending viewers with inappropriate messages has prompted many consumer- products giants -- including AT&T, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Eastman Kodak -- to pull TV ads that air during news broadcasts...
...Cornell, fundraisers at the University of Pennsylvania say their campaign has yet to suffer greatly from the recession's blows. "We haven't detected any slowdown in giving because of the economy or the war so far," says Frederick C. Nahm, Penn's vice president for development and university relations...
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri counters that only 5% are non-Jews. Angry immigrants warn that any slowdown in approving visas could cost lives. "Jews must get out quickly," says Emi Spielman, who arrived from Chernovtsy two weeks ago. The 60-year-old cobbler is still recovering from a skin graft he needed after an anti-Semitic gang burst into his house in the Soviet Union last April, pinned him down and burned his stomach with a hot iron...