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Still, it began to look as if Iraq's gamble had been an audacious miscalculation. Standing together against Saddam, every major world power worked in unprecedented concert to tame his renegade ambitions. The U.N. Security Council voted without dissent for record, tough economic sanctions -- mandatory for all U.N. members -- aimed at strangling Saddam until he released Kuwait from his grip. As added encouragement, and to dissuade the Iraqi bully from pushing any farther into the Arabian peninsula, various navies began to crowd the Persian Gulf as well as the Mediterranean, Red and Arabian seas. They were well placed to enforce...
This rhetoric, while tame by the standards of the 1988 campaign, comes at an odd moment: two new reports last week showed the budget deficit widening to as much as $200 billion. Only last month, Bush invited leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill to join him in budget talks, in which all participants could propose necessary but unpopular tax increases and spending cuts without fear of political attack. Bush wants a bipartisan budget agreement to get himself off the hook of his most famous campaign pledge: to cut the deficit without raising taxes. Yet his renewed donkey bashing makes...
Considering the enormity of Vernon's failure -- 96% of its loans were overdue when the Government took over -- the indictment strikes some critics as tardy and tame. The Justice Department contends that it has been moving as quickly as possible, although last year it left $26 million unspent out of a fraud-fighting budget of $75 million. "These complicated white-collar-crime cases take time to develop," says Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. In north Texas alone, the Government is investigating more than 500 individuals affiliated with 38 different...
...that damage cannot be repaired, we should be prepared for nationalistic chaos in the middle of Eurasia. The results could make the most feared consequences of German unification seem tame by comparison...
...battle to tame inflation has been exasperating because the chief weapon, tighter credit, has so far managed only to weaken the economy. In general, forecasters believe the U.S. economy will grow less than 2% this year. The housing industry, which has been depressed for two years, took another downward turn last month, when new home construction fell 9.3%, to an annual rate of 1.3 million units...