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Seeds of this disaster were sown in the frozen earth of Iowa. Just before midnight on the night of the caucuses, after he barely scraped by in third place, Dukakis sat in his hotel suite munching on cold cuts. Most staffers had repaired to the crowded bar, leaving only a small coterie with the candidate, who had discarded his ever present coat and tie. His wife Kitty, exhausted from a sleepless night, had kicked her shoes off and yearned for bed. But top aides were troubled. They blasted Dukakis for failing to define himself. "Governor, you never gave the people...
After allowing the seeds to be sown, Israel is now reaping the harvest of fundamentalist hatred. Islamic teachers have been some of the main cheerleaders of the rioting, blaring their call to resistance from loudspeakers attached to mosques in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. They substitute Islamic slogans for the old P.L.O. themes, chanting "Allah helps those who help themselves" or "Palestine is our Holy Land." Their call to the barricades is made more effective by Islam's reverence for martyrdom. For now, the voice of Islam speaks from a small base, with the various local groups like...
...Communists are fighting back. Police last week found the body of a man in a cloth bag along a Manila highway. On the sack were the words THIS IS A VIGILANTE. Says Max Soliven, a columnist for the daily Philippine Star: "The seeds of civil war are being sown, and nobody can predict where it will...
...policy toward pepping up economic growth. In 1986 the Reserve Board let the basic money supply grow at a 16% annual pace, far above Volcker's original target limit of 8%. That money spurt, along with the weakening dollar, has let inflation edge up this year and may have sown the seeds of future rises that could nullify part of Volcker's celebrated victory against spiraling prices...
...private investigator who won fame in the 1960s by concealing a bug in a martini olive, agrees: "The whole building is one big microphone." If that advice is followed, however, the U.S. for many years would have to keep conducting diplomacy in the old building, which has apparently been sown with sophisticated bugs that have so far proved impossible to find...