Word: prospects
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...recalling his vacillating stands on the issue. "The President has already changed his position on abortion once, in 1980," Mitchell observed dryly. "He can do so again." Democrats might even prefer a veto. After being outmaneuvered in recent weeks on tax cuts and the American flag, they relish the prospect of watching Bush explain why he rejected federal help for poor women facing a horrible predicament. "This isn't about teenagers getting pregnant in a car at the drive-in movie," says a top aide to the House Democratic leadership. "This is about rape and incest and poor women...
...would happily take in 100,000 Soviet Jews by 1992. There is a good chance, however, that at least some of the newcomers might ultimately be housed in the occupied West Bank, where U.S. policy strongly opposes Israeli expansion. Secretary of State Baker was none too pleased with that prospect when Israel informally requested $400 million in loan guarantees to build housing for new emigrants. His frosty response: the U.S. was unlikely to be able to find that sum "in this day of severe budget constraints...
...Such a prospect truly alarms Richard Leakey, the world-famous paleontologist who heads Kenya's wildlife department. Says he:"The elephant has been around a long time and has given such pleasure to so many and has the potential to give such pleasure to so many more. Should we allow it, through our inaction, greed and perhaps cowardice, to become an exotic on this continent? If not, how do we prevent...
...Optimistically, AIDS will push this country into getting universal health insurance," says New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph. "Or we may be reduced to narrow-minded scrambling to see who gets what piece of the pie." However, the current budget crisis, plus resistance to socialized medicine, makes that prospect a far-off solution. In the short run, a combination of public- and private- sector responsibility, translated into cash, seems to offer the best hope for coping with this ongoing human crisis...
Whatever blame the Vietnamese bear for the collapse of diplomacy and the prospect of new bloodshed in their region today, they are unquestionably responsible for the only war the U.S. ever lost. "That war cleaves us still," said George Bush in his Inaugural Address. "But, friends, surely the statute of limitations has been reached. The final lesson of Viet Nam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory." Like Palmerston's, those were wise words. But the Administration has yet to apply the lesson to Viet Nam itself...