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...defense-spending bill does not include is Operation Desert Shield. The buildup was funded through Oct. 1 with a special $2 billion appropriation. The Pentagon estimates it could cost as much as $15 billion over the next 12 months. Congress refused to provide that much, since it considers the sum inflated. The lawmakers are also waiting to see whether the Saudis, who have pledged $6 billion, and European allies will share the burden...
...Gordimer has never acquired the luxury of believing that private lives can proceed in a political vacuum. The stark choices imposed by apartheid allow no such privilege. And so the three characters who meet in the lobby of a recently desegregated movie house in Johannesburg represent more than the sum of personal discomforts caused by this encounter. The father and son are "colored," as determined by South Africa's laws, and the woman in question is white...
Thanks to increases and an improved exchange rate for the Norwegian krone, the prize is worth about $710,000, or about eight times Gorbachev's annual salary. It is a sum that would see any Soviet citizen through a lifetime of shortages, but the President plans to donate the money to charity. One likely recipient: a fund for young victims of the Chernobyl disaster...
Victory explains his military stature. Peace and prosperity define his presidential ranking. Yet those achievements fall short of the sum of Dwight Eisenhower. That other part of him is found in the nature...
...sum, this show bites off more than it -- or you -- can chew. But it makes you want to go to Mexico, to know this culture better, and on its own terms. As cultural diplomacy, it is a vivid success...