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...used a bissel (a little) Yiddish. It was corned beef with mustard on rye, not with mayonaise on white. It was having Sunday brunch more religiously than Shabbat meals. It was seeing everyone we knew at synagogue twice a year, and pretending spare ribs didn't count as pork in the Chinese restaurant. And it was suffering an afternoon a week at Hebrew school...
Eager to win official recognition from the Bush Administration, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) has turned up the propaganda noise and ladled out servings from a meager pork barrel. Billboards featuring Ortega nuzzling his daughter Camila, 2, dominate Managua, while the strains of the Sandinista campaign song (and old Beatles hit) All You Need Is Love blare from TVs and radios. The F.S.L.N. has distributed nearly a million toys in a country where playthings are a rarity, and has also handed out 1,000 parcels of land to farmers. Two weeks ago, Ortega pardoned the last of Nicaragua...
...microphone from atop a Soviet army APC. From Tadzhiks in the street we learn that the rattled authorities have agreed to halt lethal confrontations with the angry crowds. "The people demand the resignation of the government!" shouts one speaker. Others call for an end to the sale of pork in public markets, the punishment of soldiers and militia responsible for shooting civilians, even the departure from Tadzhikistan of all who are not Tadzhiks...
...When your defense budget is not supported by a military strategy," says Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, "it will be patched together with pork strategy." Each of the armed services, the defense industry and members of Congress will try to push major reductions off onto someone else while retaining as much as possible for themselves. Warns Phillip Karber of BDM Corp., a leading defense consulting firm: "If we do not % set a direction of where our force structure can go, you can bet that we are going to end up paying more and getting less...
According to Washington's Center for Media and Public Affairs, Bush suffered more jokes by nighttime TV comedians (143) than even Dan Quayle (135). He watched inflation climb to an eight-year high (4.6%), visited 16 foreign countries (counting Belgium twice), cut down his consumption of pork rinds and upped his intake of popcorn by a couple of barrels (unofficial estimate...