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Fahd's admiration for the U.S. goes back to 1945, when he attended the San Francisco convention that founded the United Nations and became so fascinated by the country that he wanted to stay. He sent all his sons to American colleges, and he stays tuned to CNN on TV sets scattered through his palaces. Nonetheless, the presence of American troops cannot help intensifying the pressures on the kingdom to come further out of its isolation and into the modern world. Whether that can be done while maintaining the system of semifeudal family rule that Fahd has so far adroitly...
Another warning of terrorist attacks came from the leader of a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Abul Abbas, head of the Palestine Liberation Front, told the American news network CNN that his group could launch attacks "if the United States initiates the attack on the Arab people...
...cracks in Bush's armor are only of the hairline variety. A TIME/ CNN poll, conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, gave him a robust job-approval rate of 61%. But that is down 9 points since April. More troubling for the White House is a dive in confidence in Bush's ability to maintain prosperity. In February's survey, 60% of Americans described the economy as very good or fairly good. That figure dipped to 49% last week. In the earlier poll, respondents liked Bush's handling of the economy, 55% to 36%. The new figures show...
...combat zone. In the fight to win over the ambivalent majority of Americans, the pro-choice movement is on the wrong side of parental consent: 69% of adult Americans favor laws requiring a teenage girl to get her parents' permission before having an abortion, according to a TIME/ CNN survey. Similarly, pro-lifers lose support over rape and incest: 84% of those polled believe the Government should pay when a rape victim needs an abortion and cannot afford it, and 77% when incest is involved...
...last month Alonso thought the treatment was worth mentioning to WXIA-TV, Atlanta's NBC and CNN affiliate, which carried the story on May 25. Five days later, CNN broke the news nationally. Since then, it has been reported, sometimes skeptically, on local TV news shows around the U.S. and in such newspapers as the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times...