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...where a Northern Italian veal-chop dinner for two can run $100, needed to pare costs. He threatened to turn away the American Express card unless Amex reduced its take -- 3.25% of every purchase, vs. 1.7% to 2% for Visa and MasterCard. Last week the combatants struck a truce when DiFillippo accepted Amex's offer of a 2.9% rate, saving him $11,000 a year. Amex also offered him $6,000 of advertising as part of a new nationwide program to rouse diners out of the doldrums. DiFillippo says his complaints to American Express went unheeded until a local newspaper...
While Iraqi Kurds have been speaking with increasing confidence that their day has come, Saddam has surely not finished fighting them. If his forces are able to consolidate their gains in the south, they will soon turn their guns on the rebels in the north. After a permanent truce is reached with the allies, Saddam will presumably be able to fly his combat planes again and thus bomb the Kurds from...
...military's use of helicopter gunships against the rebels provoked a warning from President Bush. Under the terms of a temporary truce reached with Iraq three weeks ago, Baghdad is not to fly any fixed-wing airplanes until a permanent cease-fire agreement is signed. Because Iraq's roads and bridges are so chewed up, Baghdad is allowed to use helicopters. But using the choppers to blast rebels, U.S. officials said, violated the spirit of the understanding. President Bush said the issue might stall the withdrawal of American forces from the gulf. His admonition followed an earlier threat...
...true that a cease-fire could permit some repairs and possible adjustments of Iraqi forces. These benefits could be minimized by the terms of the allied announcement of a truce, which might preclude the rebuilding of bridges or the redeployment of armored units. Pinpoint attacks by our smart bombs could stop these actions even during the respite period...
While the speech summoned South Africans to a new era of harmony, it also exposed the deep rifts that run through every level of the racially torn society. Despite the truce between Mandela and Buthelezi, the two leaders remain far apart in their strategy. As A.N.C. demonstrators called for immediate elections, Buthelezi applauded De Klerk's rejection of such a move, which the Zulu leader denounced as "a constitutional leap into the dark." At the same time, Buthelezi praised the De Klerk government for "lending its weight to breaking the back of apartheid...