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Tactics that raw have disappeared from Harkin's script, but he often declines to let accuracy ruin a witty line or blunt a political dart. Angry that Bush may provide emergency assistance to the Soviet Union if food shortages worsen, Harkin says that G.O.P. niggardliness toward elderly Americans will force many of them "to choose this winter between heating and eating." Harkin dismisses the possibility of starvation in the Soviet Union: "I keep seeing these pictures of Russians. I've never seen a picture of a skinny one yet." When he argues for rapid reduction of U.S. forces in Europe...
...dilemma is likely to worsen, because while it is Gorbachev who is pleading for tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars in economic aid from the West, it is Yeltsin who is pushing the sweeping reforms that in Western eyes are needed to make any such aid effective. That divergence will be pointed up at the conclusion of the summit conference of the G-7 (the Group of Seven major industrial and financial powers) in London on July 15-17. The group last week formally invited Gorbachev to meet with them immediately afterward. He will then make his pitch...
...futurists by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, released this month, shows a sudden upsurge in support for nuclear power following a decade of rejection. As the world worries about global warming and acid rain, even some environmentalists are looking a bit more kindly on the largest power source that doesn't worsen either problem: nuclear. New reactor designs would make accidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island impossible, or so the engineers say, and while much of the public is skeptical, some scientists are persuaded...
...pork, however, comes wrapped in a khaki uniform. The federal budget is larded with highly questionable nonmilitary projects that receive lavish funding while more urgent national needs like fighting infant mortality and improving education are strapped for cash. None of the individual programs is large enough to worsen the $318 billion deficit significantly. But lumped together, the plethora of porcine projects adds huge sums to federal outlays. Freshman Republican Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire has been combing the budget for examples of nondefense pork, specifically projects that were never voted or debated but somehow were slipped into appropriations bills...
...thousands of workers in Minsk, the capital of once quiescent Belorussia, answered the call for a strike moratorium by walking off the job, joining the estimated 300,000 miners on strike. The cost of these labor disruptions is already estimated to run into the billions. This can only worsen a budget deficit that has in the first quarter already exceeded the government's projection for the entire year by more than 4 billion rubles, owing to a shortfall in contributions from the republics...