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...huge logjam of financial uncertainty had been broken. Ever since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait raised the threat of war in the Middle East last August, business in many parts of the globe has suffered because so many decisions have been put on hold. In the U.S. the specter of a major war has created a virtual paralysis in an economy already plagued by recession, deep budget deficits and troubled banks. "It's frightening," said Mitchell Fromstein, CEO of Manpower, the employment-services company. "We're watching a war being superimposed on top of a recession. People are just frozen...
...failure to deal with the Palestinian problem could likewise stir rebellion in Jordan. Even if Hussein weathers such storms, the Jordanian economy has been wrecked by the cutoff of trade with Iraq prescribed by U.N. sanctions; the specter of the 1989 riots prompted by government austerity measures still looms large...
...editors of the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, TIME and the Associated Press, while the New York Times issued a similar statement. The network presidents charged that the rules "go far beyond what is required to protect troop safety and mission security . . . and raise the specter of government censorship of a free press." The A.P. protested a ban on reporting "details of major battle damage or major personnel losses" until announced by the Pentagon. "You could drive an Army half-track through this provision," said A.P.'s Washington bureau chief, Jonathan Wolman. An A.P. reporter was among...
...same advantages that recommend Norplant to many women also raise the specter of abuse. Some health experts fear that legislators and judges will try to use the method as a way of restricting the reproductive freedom of teenagers, drug users, convicted child abusers or even the mentally ill. Economist Isabel Sawhill at the Urban Institute, a Washington-based research organization, recently published a paper in which she suggested that all teenagers be encouraged to use Norplant at puberty. "The decision to have a child would become a conscious choice -- decoupled from the dictates of biology, hormones and peer pressure...
UNDERLYING these demands from the anti-war movement is a cult of the Vietnam War which has fermented since 1975 in movies, personal histories and popular music. Any American foreign policy adventure--however justified--calls up the specter of Vietnam. The U.S. seems too fed up with the memories of Ron Kovic and My Lai to get involved...