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...popular than his party. Lafontaine, 47, appealed to younger voters as a maverick who ranged wide of the Social Democratic establishment and party orthodoxy. A pacifist, keen on environmental issues and allergic to any invocation of nationalist sentiment, he was touted as the "posthistorical politician." In his campaign, Lafontaine even shunned using the black, red and gold colors of the flag...
...executives were apprehensive that their little story of a kid and two Keystone Kriminals would be lost in a season awash in such high-profile films as Rocky V, Kindergarten Cop and Godfather III. They were even more apprehensive about competition from Three Men and a Little Lady, a sequel to one of 1988's big hits, Three Men and a Baby, which opened five days after Home Alone. But, says Sherak, "by the time Three Men opened, we were already positioned. Our momentum just kept going...
...attackers should have a 3-to-1 superiority in numbers to blast defenders out of well-entrenched positions; in Kuwait and Iraq the numbers would be only equal. American tanks would actually be outnumbered 3-to-1 by Iraqi armor, though the numbers of heavy tanks would be approximately even, and the American M1 Abrams is thought to be superior in speed, maneuverability and firepower to Iraq's top-of-the-line Soviet-built T-72. The relentless hammering that Saddam's troops would take from U.S. airplanes is the main factor that allied commanders believe would enable them...
This time around, even Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan jumped into the fray. Citing hundreds of angry letters and calls from citizens, Lujan said he wanted to keep the Yosemite Park and Curry concessionaire in the hands of Americans. MCA will be given a year to find an American buyer...
...giant to Matsushita Electric Industrial for $6.1 billion. How could he, they asked, sell to foreigners the studio that made To Kill a Mockingbird, Jaws, E.T., Born on the Fourth of July and Back to the Future? The home of TV heroes Magnum, Columbo, Jim Rockford, Sonny Crockett and even the Beaver? The company that runs the lodgings and jitneys in Yosemite Park? In Hollywood, some moviemakers wondered whether industrialists in Osaka would now censor Hollywood's ideas. Even the Bush Administration raised some objections to the deal...