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...citrus imports. With U.S. sirloin costing as much as $20 per lb. in Tokyo, Japan was willing to liberalize quotas but refused to eliminate them. Since the ruling Liberal Democratic Party depends so heavily on farmers' support, the government has not been able to take such a politically risky step...
With views and vulnerabilities like these, any other presidential candidate, white or black, would have been driven to the sidelines long ago. That is why it still appears improbable that the Democrats will take the bold -- and probably foolhardy -- step of nominating Jackson. But the white political establishment, along with the press, has been consistently underestimating Jackson since 1984. Then they initially doubted the magnitude of Jackson's appeal to the black community, and now they question his continuing support ^ among whites. What these conventional calculations miss is Jackson's uncanny ability to invent his own rules and often...
Even during one of the holiest times of the year, the bloodshed would not stop in the Holy Land. From secret locations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip last week, leaders of the Palestinian uprising issued leaflets addressed to their stone-throwing followers. The order: step up the violence on Land Day, the twelfth anniversary of the deaths of six Israeli Arabs who were killed while they protested Israeli government confiscation of their property. Anticipating trouble, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin took the unprecedented step of sealing off the West Bank and Gaza for three days. He warned of harsher...
...those of policing civil unrest, but the idea of shutting out the press has got a sympathetic hearing in elite quarters. Last month former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was quoted as telling a group of American Jewish leaders that the "insurrection must be quelled immediately, and the first step is to throw out television, a la South Africa." Kissinger, while not denying that he made the statements, has said that his remarks were distorted...
...relief is not in order. Certainly, sexually active persons are at some risk and should take reasonable precautions. Current evidence on AIDS gives no cause for complacency, especially considering our duties to its victims. Recent legislation enacted in the state of Washington to promote AIDS education may be a step in the right direction, but time will be the judge of that...