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...word of President Bush's decision to go to war in the Persian Gulf spread last week, gluing eyes to television sets across the nation, many Cambridge residents felt the tug of two opposing passions...
...tactical victory for Bush and a stunning turnaround of congressional sentiment. When the newly elected 102nd Congress assembled in Washington on Jan. 3, few lawmakers believed a majority could be found in either chamber favoring a quick resort to force. What seemed to be shaping up instead was a tug-of-war with the President over Congress's constitutional right to declare war. For months Bush had avoided seeking congressional approval of his gulf policies, fearing that a narrow victory -- or worse, a defeat -- would further embolden Saddam Hussein. But when it became apparent that the returning lawmakers were determined...
...national budget for the coming year. The central government and the republics, Gorbachev said, would also cooperate to overcome a deepening food crisis and set up a transitional administration until a new treaty reorganizing the federal structure of the Soviet Union was approved. "Months were lost in the tug-of-war between the center and the republics," Gorbachev complained. "We are specialists at going to extremes, but I am for common sense...
...Dwight Schultz is really fine as Spacek's husband, teetering between propriety and principle. But no actor's art can disguise the simplemindedness of this tract or the stodginess with which it is dramatized. What are audiences to learn about today's racial antagonisms from a long-ago tug of war between saints (the black underclass) and demons (the Alabama plutocracy)? The movie plays like a Christmas card whose sentiment is noble but whose poetry is doggerel...
...that was missing was a small boy to tug at Lew Wasserman's sleeve and plead...