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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...direct challenge to the theme parks of the Walt Disney Co. and MCA's Universal Studios, which serve their owners not only as profit producers but as persuasive corporate advertising as well. Sonyland will feature the products of its parent company and its motion-picture subsidiary. The opening date, location and specific amusements of Sonyland remain a mystery. One of the rumored attractions: a ride featuring the pirate ship from Columbia's forthcoming movie Hook, a Steven Spielberg sequel to Peter...
...crisis. And it will probably be made, or at least disclosed, at the last possible instant. Somewhere around 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15, U.S. Eastern Standard Time -- one minute before what the American State Department considers the deadline (the United Nations has specified only the date). Or maybe on Jan. 16 or 18 or 23, or Feb. 6 or even later should President Bush take a bit longer to gear up for war. If the Iraqi dictator tries some final maneuver to forestall the assault, says William Quandt, a leading American expert on the Middle East, he will...
...continuing bank crisis. "It's painfully clear that I would have been smart to get out earlier," he says, "but I am not as smart as I should be, and now I am enmeshed in such a day-to-day battle that it's hard to find the right date to leave...
...unreal it all feels. Never before have Americans waited for a war scheduled to begin on or close to a certain date, knowing too that they will watch its horror during prime time. How discouraging as well, after the freedom that swept Eastern Europe following 40 years of communist dictatorship. Because of that transformation, the possibility of massive war was supposedly lifted: the nukes were being destroyed. We were not totally lulled. We knew that madmen still held sway, messianic tyrants riveted by the Nietzschean principle that power is a good in itself. We felt bad for those subjected...
...must continue to fight in accordance with two principles: Minimize casualties, and maintain open diplomatic channels that might allow an early end to the conflict. The congressional resolution for force was not a carte blanche authorization for unnecessary brutality and indefinite prolonging of the conflict. Although there has to date been no evidence that the invasion has violated the resolution's intent, the U.S. must be sure to stay within these bounds...