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...long the shutdown would last and how deeply it would bite remained uncertain. Fortunately, it went into effect on the Columbus Day weekend, giving Congress and the President three more days to strike an agreement before most government employees were due to report to work. On Friday evening, while congressional leaders scrambled to rejigger the deficit-cutting plan to make it more acceptable, the House overwhelmingly passed a short-term continuing resolution that would have funded government operations for a week. The measure was approved by a voice vote in the Senate hours later...
Although private universities like Harvard would not feel the CLT petition's bite quite as overwhelmingly as state-funded institutions would, they would be hurt nonetheless, according to Shattuck and officials from other schools...
...Iraqi President's videotaped message to America last week was absurdly long -- 75 minutes of a staid Saddam at his desk, potted plant to his left -- and the rambling script brimmed with illogic, non sequiturs and esoteric references to history. In the land of the sound bite, where attention spans are conditioned by the quick democracy of the remote control, The Saddam Show was barely worthy of public-access cable, much less prime-time TV. It was no surprise that the major networks ran only brief excerpts, while CNN relegated its full airing of the tape to 1 a.m. Eastern...
...economic blockade against Iraq does not bite quickly enough, and Bush decides he would like to raise the ante without launching an attack, he has an intriguing option: cut off the water. Iraq's major rivers wash down from Turkey and Syria, two nations that are part of the alliance against Saddam Hussein. Turkey, which has already cut off key Iraqi oil pipelines, is in the better position to severely disrupt the flow. With some effort, the Ataturk dam on the Euphrates River could be used as a plug on the crucial water supply, and there are already enough antiaircraft...
Bush and Gorbachev meet to discuss the gulf crisis, underscoring the shifts in superpower -- and other -- relations. Back home, Bush is bedeviled by the U.S. budget and Gorbachev by the Soviet economy. Gauging the embargo's bite. Tragedy for the refugees...