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...adviser program has contributed to a rare success on Haifa Street, getting the rest of the Iraqi army up to speed will take some doing. A Pentagon official says most of the 62,000 Iraqi army soldiers the U.S. has trained are still kids who "just know the basic soldiering skills--they've learned to march and shoot their rifles." If the U.S. hopes to get its troops out anytime soon, those Iraqis are going to have to grow up fast. --With reporting by Douglas Waller/Washington
...Helsinki commitments covered a multitude of human endeavors, but the pledges on guaranteeing basic human rights have become the most contentious. It is here that the Final Act has fallen significantly short of its goal, largely owing to noncompliance by the Soviet Union and its East European satellites. Exasperation over Western scrutiny of Soviet behavior was recently expressed by Yuri Zhukov, a columnist for the Soviet newspaper Pravda, who said that "it has been hammered into the minds of the people in the West for ten years" that the Final Act amounts merely to a declaration on human rights...
...appeal in the current zeitgeist, one a celebration of convention and wealth, the other a manifesto of street-toughness and bohemian penury. In the age of Reagan, la-di-da formality has made big black limousines and black-tie soirees modish once again. Thus for the well-to-do, basic black is a means of ostentatious discretion. On the other hand, the angry black of the new wave--dark glasses, sour black T shirts and scruffy black jeans--is more the anarchist's traditional black. It is neo-beatnik, the color correlate of the adolescent angst satirized by Chekhov...
When rising Third World incomes meet the shrinking cost of technology, multinationals are betting that markets will bloom. In October Silicon Valley's Advanced Micro Devices introduced a $185 Personal Internet Communicator--a basic computer--for developing countries, while Taiwan-based VIA Technologies plans to launch a similar device costing just $100. Motorola last month unveiled a no-frills cell phone priced at $40; the cell-phone manufacturer says it expects to sell 6 million cell phones in six months in markets including China, India and Turkey. "You've got nearly 2 billion people who will be buying a phone...
...debate over a Republican proposal to stop Democrats from filibustering judicial nominees, often called the "nuclear option:" "This isn't something someone should rush into because it changes the basic framework of our country. People are beginning to see the error of the thinking, that if you don't like what's going on, change the rules. I think there's beginning to be an atmosphere in our country that shows the arrogance of power is not good. Take for example what's going on in the House. Tom Delay was censured three times within 12 months, that's unheard...