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...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...
...linchpin in the strategy to isolate Saddam, its worries have been taken seriously. Kuwait's Emir has offered to compensate the Turks for most if not all of their financial damages, which Ankara estimates will come to $2.5 billion annually. Because Turkey is so vulnerable to Saddam's wrath, Secretary of State James Baker traveled to Ankara to personally deliver Western assurances, and saw to it that NATO reaffirmed its commitment to back the country in the event of an attack...
...well reasoned and long overdue, the consensus is that he overshot the mark initially, stopping inflation but nearly halting business as well. In the process, he has angered Big Business, alienated much of the middle class, and invited the risk of a major recession. He has also provoked the wrath of Big Labor, as evidenced last week by strikes at a state-run steel plant outside Rio de Janeiro and at the main Ford auto factory near Sao Paulo. Now Collor must scramble to reaffirm his popular mandate, while at the same time staving off public demands to push...
...Souter will follow the lead of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and refuse to take a firm stand on such a specific issue during confirmation hearings. If the Democrats settle for this non-answer, they would save the Senate from a bloody floor fight but would incur the wrath of pro-choice activists everywhere. This could be lethal for Democrats and pro-choice Republicans alike...
Events of this rangy, ambitious novel are seen through the scrim of the author's wrath. Long before terms like environment or ecology came into common use, the rich, fragile jungle of the Everglades was destroyed, its birds and beasts annihilated, its waterways choked. The men responsible might never have heard of the word habitat, but they knew what they were doing, and for some, at least, hardness was tinged with a mute regret...