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Just six months ago, it was hard to imagine anything much worse than the prospect of Saddam Hussein and his million-man army in control of Kuwait and one-fifth of the world's oil reserves. But an even more frightening specter has since emerged: a wounded and vengeful Saddam with a smaller army whose best punch is an atom bomb...
...number of eruptions these days is not abnormal, but human populations near the fiery mountains have been growing rapidly. Never before have the volcanoes posed such a serious threat. Some volcanologists believe, for example, that Mount Fuji has entered an active phase, raising the specter of a giant eruption only 100 km (62 miles) from Tokyo...
Most important, Trump has eluded the specter of personal bankruptcy by whittling his debt down to more manageable proportions. The amount of debt that Trump guaranteed personally -- several hundred million dollars -- is breathtaking even by the standards of the '80s. In negotiations so far, the banks have agreed to secure some of that debt with the Plaza and other assets...
...threat of climatological change could lead to a rapprochement between the nuclear power industry and U.S. environmentalists, long bitter foes. As they prepared to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Earth Day this week, leading environmentalists had the specter of global warming much on their mind. "Nuclear has a proven track record of producing large amounts of energy," says Douglas Bohi, director of energy at Resources for the Future, a Washington-based research group. "But the industry has to convince the public that the new technology will be safe and pose fewer problems...
...justified. Threats to world stability may come increasingly from eruptions in one nation that send floods of refugees across borders and upset a regional or international balance of power. The next such explosion might come in Yugoslavia; further -- but perhaps not much further -- down the road looms the specter of a bloody dissolution of the Soviet Union...