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...know whereof I speak. On my arrival in this fair city I was already a battle-scarred veteran of the War to Crush Bureacracy. I had to wade through a tide of petty officials just to get a reply card to accept the University's kind offer of admission. In the intervening years, I have been left off more lists than I care to remember...
...refugees are a problem for Jordan's King Hussein, whose country lacks the resources to cope with the human tide. Last week Jordan announced that it was temporarily closing its border with Iraq because of "concern for the health situation of the arrivals and to make suitable arrangements for their stay in Jordan." Nevertheless, two days after the announcement, the border reopened and thousands of people came pouring in. As the plight of the refugees continued to worsen, an international relief effort picked up steam. In Geneva a United Nations official said 30 to 40 tons of emergency aid, including...
...last few lines of telephone communication. Even the dozens of Kuwaiti refugees in Saudi Arabia who call home by mobile cellular phone can rarely get through. Citizens and foreign residents must rely on friends and relatives who have escaped the country to bear their message of despair. Although the tide of refugees is drying up as Iraqis reportedly mine the desert roads, each day brings another exhausted traveler on the run with fresh news about life inside Kuwait. As in every war, it is difficult to know if these stories are true. But taken together, the accounts suggest that despite...
...President's call for restraint came amid a fast-rising tide of public wrath toward the oil industry. Michigan Governor James Blanchard accused oil companies of war profiteering, a politically loaded charge rarely leveled since World War II. On Capitol Hill last week, congressional committees hastily convened hearings to investigate allegations of price gouging and even price fixing. According to a House estimate, the oil industry raked in a $1 billion windfall in the first week after the Iraqi invasion...
Many Florida Democrats believe Chiles is the party's only hope of stemming the G.O.P. tide. For Chiles, the greater challenge is proving he can win a modern election without the tools of a modern campaign. "If we win with our $100 limit, we'll be free to look at all the problems Florida's been sweeping under the rug," Chiles says, "because we won't owe anybody anything." In 1990 that's a message so old-fashioned it's almost revolutionary...