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...reinforce with her stiff sentencing of Milken, say experts. "We are dealing here with a theme that resonates very strongly in American society," says Columbia's Coffee. "It is that the abuse of responsibility by those in high places will be dealt with harshly." The government hopes to make the threat of harsh sentences for white-collar felons the pointed lesson of Michael Milken's fall...
French officials hear that many Iraqi factories are closed or working half time; the nation's largest textile plant is said to be operating only eight hours a week. Egyptian laborers returning from Iraq report that bakers are being forced to mix barley with scarce flour to make a tasteless bread. As if to confirm such reports of hardship, Saddam Hussein's government last week decreed the death penalty for hoarders of wheat, barley, rice, flour and maize...
...begin, some experts are worried that the more extreme reports of shortages may be disinformation circulated by Iraq to make its foes think a military attack is unnecessary, and thus gain time for Saddam to try to disrupt the alliance against him. More important, hardship for civilians does not necessarily indicate any lessening of Iraq's ability to fight; Saddam's dictatorship can and will squeeze the civilian economy as hard as may be necessary to maintain supplies to the armed forces. Case in point: U.S. Secretary of State James Baker said on ABC-TV's This Week with David...
...major accord governing nearly $4 trillion in global commerce. But negotiations to revise the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade are on the verge of collapse over the prickly issues of farm subsidies. Last week a new U.S.-European Community dispute over trade in services threatened to make an accord even more difficult...
...effectiveness demonstrated on large numbers of burn patients are U.S. doctors likely to take these claims seriously. Before-and-after photographs prove little, since a few patients have healed surprisingly well under any circumstances. Concludes Dr. Fred Caldwell, president of the American Burn Association: "It's one thing to make claims of a miracle cure. It's another to back up those claims with good clinical trials." The ointment may ultimately prove to be of some value, but in medicine new treatments have to pass the test -- again and again -- before they become miracles...