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...competition from Japanese "transplant" factories in the U.S. A more insidious element was Chrysler's own success selling K-cars, minivans and Jeeps in the 1980s, which brought the company huge profits. "We became a little too rich and fat doing things that were not germane to the basic thrust of the company, which is to become the low-cost, highest-quality producer," says Iacocca...
...Israel has been treated as if this were not true. The thrust of the reporting and, in particular, the commentary is that Israel has failed dismally to meet Western standards, that it has been particularly barbaric in its treatment of the Palestinian uprising. No other country is repeatedly subjected to Nazi analogies. In no other country is the death or deportation of a single rioter the subject (as it was for the first year of the intifadeh, before it became a media bore) of front-page news, of emergency Security Council meetings, of full-page ads in the New York...
...collapse of communism in Eastern Europe could mean a reduced U.S. defense budget. And it means that America must spend more to support the thrust toward liberalization. To get around the money crunch, Senate Republican leader Robert Dole last week proposed cutting 5% from the funds allotted to foreign- aid recipients...
...with little or no political experience were suddenly thrust into positions of leadership. Then as now, the European uprisings fanned the flames of nationalism and raised what came to be known as "the German question" -- the possibility that all Germans would unite in one state. In 1848 the widely despised symbol of the old order was the aged Austrian Chancellor, Klemens von Metternich. His flight from Vienna touched off the kind of rejoicing that greeted the opening of the Berlin Wall this November...
...international, reflecting the recognition that all the major environmental threats are global in scope. More than 100 countries, including Hungary and Uganda, have started to form committees and plan activities. Says Denis Hayes, a San Francisco lawyer and chairman of Earth Day 1990, an international umbrella organization: "The whole thrust of Earth Day as we go into the 1990s is an environment that is much brighter, a far more diversified movement and, hopefully, a working agenda for the next ten years...