Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...event the gulf crisis poses a make-or-break test for America's tenure as sole superpower. For now the public is solidly united behind Bush's policy. But that could change if the crisis has an unhappy ending: a prolonged stalemate combined with deep domestic recession, a settlement allowing Iraq to keep some fruits of aggression, a bloody and inconclusive war. Some experts fear that any such outcome would inspire a resurgence of isolationism that would put a speedy stop to any ideas of building a New World Order...
...UNITED NATIONS. The organization, long derided as tangential at best, was quietly making a comeback by mediating settlements in such trouble spots as Namibia and Angola. In the gulf crisis it has functioned at long last as its creators hoped it would 45 years ago, focusing world condemnation on an aggressor, authorizing a global embargo and even voting to permit the use of force to back up that squeeze. The Bush Administration would like to make the U.N. a cornerstone of its plans to construct a New World Order. The U.N. will continue to be effective, however, only so long...
...entering the talks himself, Bush hoped to pressure both sides to forge an agreement in time to announce it in a nationally televised address on Tuesday night. Failing that, he may use the speech either to blast those he blames for the impasse or to make a dramatic offer to break the deadlock. Not even his closest advisers could say which option Bush would take...
Bush has been willing to take huge risks, make tough decisions, spend money quickly and put American soldiers in danger in the Persian Gulf. By contrast, his domestic posture has been low profile, low risk and largely ineffectual. Why is there this contrast in the President's performance...
...Sihanouk must finally make up his mind. If there is one man around whom a new government might be built, it is Sihanouk. Now the various factions simply use him, or his name, at their pleasure. Last June the Prince joined Hun Sen in a call for a Supreme National Council along the lines Hun Sen prefers. But it is unclear whether this was really a split with his Khmer Rouge allies or a ploy aimed at persuading an increasingly shaky U.S. Congress to continue providing nonlethal aid to the noncommunist members of the rebel coalition. Sihanouk is as hard...