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...Vietnam veterans are especially cautious about a new war. Says Richard Zierdt of Circle Pines, Minn., who served as an Air Force sergeant in Vietnam: "Veterans are the least willing to create new veterans. War is never really inevitable until you fire the first shot. But I think our current policies are taking us that...
...problems ahead will test all the skills of the new government in Bonn. The most pressing task is to determine how to pay for unification. Current projections call for an expenditure of roughly $55 billion annually for the next four years for building infrastructure and providing social support in the eastern part of the country. In the months leading up to the election, Kohl resisted a tax hike, preferring instead to rely on spending cuts, the sale of public assets in western and eastern Germany, and large-scale borrowing. Few expect that the government will be able to follow this...
Matsushita spends generously for R. and D. as well. In the current fiscal year, development costs are $3 billion, or 6.2% of sales, almost double that of most U.S. companies. The 72-year-old firm that started out as a manufacturer of electrical plugs is now a leading global purveyor of goods ranging from semiconductors to refrigerators...
...city from Soviet strangulation. Ironically, among the supplies to be sent to the U.S.S.R. will be 300,000 tons of powdered staples and canned foods that had been stockpiled in Berlin against another such blockade -- a trove whose existence had been a secret for 40 years until the current crisis brought it to light...
...November a poll for the Times of London showed 62% of those surveyed backing the use of U.S. and British troops against Iraq if Saddam Hussein refuses to leave Kuwait. Even the opposition Labour Party has consistently backed the government's gulf policy. However, in spite of current levels of support, pollsters believe public approval will decline dramatically as casualties mount...