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...Haig by pushing for the U.S. to sell Saudi Arabia five sophisticated AWACS radar and command center planes, while Haig saw no reason to rush the deal. To make matters worse, when Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear power plant in June, Neumann complained that U.S. reaction had been excessively mild...
...contraceptives, for example, are effective but inefficient. Says Budoff: "You have to take 21 days' worth of pills for 24 hours' worth of relief. And then there are the dangerous side effects" (increased blood pressure, a greater risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease). Aspirin is helpful against mild pain. Most favored today are three drugs used against arthritis: ibuprofen, naproxen sodium and mefenamic acid...
...escalate the war of words in a speech last week to the summer session of the Supreme Soviet. He mentioned the U.S. only once, charging that it was evading talks on arms limitation and was bent instead on "an arms race unprecedented in scale." Under the circumstances, that was mild rhetoric...
...Ronald Reagan enters his sixth month in power, the has-beens have helped put Washington in a mild dither. For one thing, there are more of them around than ever before: three vigorous former Presidents, two former Vice Presidents, six former First Ladies, scores of former Cabinet officers and literally hundreds of their lesser aides and consultants. Some, like Jimmy Carter, have been discreetly silent. Nonetheless, the has-beens form an army of sorts that marches through the hearing rooms. the banquet halls and the panel shows. leaving its public assessments of Reagan and its private disagreements with what...
Paradoxically, the Socialists may also have benefited from the economic prosperity achieved under their center-right predecessors. Not only was France's 12.5% inflation and 7.2% unemployment still comparatively mild, by world standards, but more important, the country has one of Europe's most dynamic and resilient economies. Over the past 13 years, for example, the growth of the gross national product has averaged 4.2%, compared with West Germany's 3.5% and the U.S.'s 2.7%. In the industrialized world, only Japan has a higher rate of investment and savings. Yet the very success of France's state-led capitalist...