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Payless paydays hardly help a government win the loyalty of its citizens -- or employees. A cash squeeze was in fact one element in the pressure that Washington put on Manuel Noriega by freezing Panama's bank accounts in the U.S. But at year's end the Bush Administration had to throw that process into reverse, when the U.S.-installed administration of President Guillermo Endara was due to pay out $50 million in government salaries and had no money in the till...
...police, of course, bought the story. After all, they had the very same fears and latent prejudices. The press, jumping on the story as if the death of Carol Stuart were so much more significant than that of James Moody, or any other person killed that day, added an element of class elitism to the web of prejudice. Additionally, much of white society already perceived the Black male as a murderous, adulterous beast as a result of this historically biased media portrayal. The press exacerbated this perception by referring to the supposed killer as a Black man "lurking...
MacPhee also suggested there was an element of hypocrisy to the plaintiffs' efforts to punish him for asking the court to move the case out of Boston...
...report deals almost entirely with worker exposure to airborne plutonium, but does note that significant quantities of the radioactive element were measured away from the Hanford plant...
Despite these challenges, Bush is still buoyed by an element of good fortune. Gorbachev seems content to let the President move at his own pace. The Soviets and NATO allies support a stabilizing U.S. presence in Europe. And a gradually reduced Soviet threat may enable Bush to squeeze just enough money from the military next year to keep the federal deficit moving downward. Bush recognizes that he is the benefactor of a rare alignment of stars. "I'm a lucky person to be President of our country in these very exciting times," he said last week. But as the ground...