Word: makeing
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Even in their most confidential communications with the Kremlin, U.S. policymakers and diplomats have been careful not to make this pitch too explicit. They are afraid the KGB may make mischief between Washington and Bonn by leaking any cable or memorandum that reveals Americans to be exploiting Soviet anxiety about Germany. There is nothing cryptic about the apprehension of the British, French, Czechoslovaks and Poles as they watch the juggernaut of German unification. The Bush Administration keeps hoping the Kremlin will therefore not object too strenuously as the U.S. helps sponsor the emergence of a new Germany at the center...
...must convince the Soviets not that we are in trouble and desperately need them to throw us an anchor, but that it is they who risk being seen as a spoiler. The bottom line is this: Soviet reduction of aid and Soviet pressure on its clients are necessary to make up for the leverage we lost in Central America when military aid to the contras was ended." Unstated in writing, but understood by all, was that the upcoming meeting could be the Administration's last chance to turn Central American lemons into lemonade...
...been saying for more than a year. But Bush and his wily Budget Director, Richard Darman, have a second agenda. Now that they have convened a budget summit with congressional Democrats, the White House would prefer to remove the rising bill for thrift closures from the deficit talks to make it easier for both sides to reach the elusive Gramm- Rudman targets. A speedy budget deal, Darman believes, will lower interest rates and keep the economy growing. But other participants, notably Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer of New York, say that moving the thrift bailout off budget -- instead of paying...
...selfless soldier who was virtually canonized by Chairman Mao. If stronger medicine is needed to awaken top party and local leaders to the dangers of internal divisions, hard-liners are offering a one-hour video titled Eastern Europe in Turmoil. According to one viewer, the tape is designed "to make local Communist officials realize that if in a crisis they fail to hitch a line to the Communist boat, they will all sink together -- like Ceausescu...
...runs sex- offender and substance-abuse treatment programs in Allentown, Pa. "Even if you're using the word addiction metaphorically, it blurs good assessment, which is essential to starting appropriate treatment." Johns Hopkins researcher John Money sees the focus on sex addiction as a fad. "People trying to make money on it better hurry up," he says. "It'll probably dry up in five years...