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...nine-year high, courtesy of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), whose members have by agreement kept supplies tight. As the cost has surged, some industries have reacted. Airlines such as American and United have slapped fuel surcharges on tickets. With crude stocks dwindling, further price increases threaten to ratchet up inflationary pressure...
...that would ease arms-sales restrictions to Taipei. Beijing, naturally, reacted with alarm, and the White House made clear it would work the Senate to stop the bill from passing. "The White House reaction isn't surprising, since there's a longstanding arrangement with Beijing that they won't threaten Taiwan as long as the status quo is maintained and they're not put in an embarrassing situation," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But Beijing clearly sees this legislation as changing the status quo, and therefore requiring a response from them that can only inflame the situation...
...Thursday agreed to swear in a coalition government Friday comprising the mainstream conservative People's party and the anti-immigrant populist party led by a man whose previous statements sympathetic to Third Reich policies and to the notorious Waffen SS have caused Israel, the U.S. and European countries to threaten to isolate Austria. "President Klestil admitted yesterday that his hands were tied," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Andrew Purvis. "His only alternative would be to call a general election, in which the Freedom party would do even better, because the foreign outcry over Haider has actually seen his popularity...
...just want to make students happy," Wolfreys said. "This does not in any way threaten Dorm Crew. We are not getting kicked out of anywhere...
...hand-in-hand complicity of police and the justice system prevents Carter's release from prison in order to cover up police corruption in New Jersey. With dizzying rapidity, Jewison now whips up righteous lawyers who passionately rail against the judicial system as well as shady police officers who threaten the three Canadians who decide to rally to Carter's cause. And as if we weren't more than inundated with inspirational themes, we even have a parallel story of another poor black boy Lesra Martin (Vicellous Shannon) who also has to overcome hardships of race, and who becomes...