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Jacobsen said it was time for American citizens to act as a "court of last resort" to help end the hostages' ordeal...
Wintry rainstorms pelted the Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este last week, forming an ominously fitting backdrop for the historic meeting of government ministers. Officials from 74 countries had arrived there to confront the ill wind of protectionism, which is threatening to freeze international trade and economic growth. The ministers, who at times donned Uruguayan wool sweaters and huddled around space heaters, struggled to agree on an agenda for a multiyear series of talks that they hope will create warmer trade relationships around the world. Declared Uruguayan President Julio Maria Sanguinetti as he opened the five-day meeting...
...next year's deficit will be in the $175 billion range. TIME's board members agreed that Gramm-Rudman's 1988 deficit target of $108 billion is out of reach, in part because the needed spending cuts would be too painful politically. As a result, they said, Congress will resort to revising the Gramm-Rudman targets...
...gathering in Riga dramatized a basic principle of superpower relations: even in the worst of times, the two rivals seek to maintain competitive engagement in diplomacy rather than let their antagonisms get out of control. The reason is simple. In the nuclear age, the breakdown of diplomacy and the resort to war is not an option. Precisely because last week was a tense moment, it was a good week for the U.S. citizens who traveled to Riga...
...disturbing stuff, to say the least. But Blue Velvet is a profoundly moral film. The audience's agony is to a greater degree Jeffrey's; he must resort to Booth's brand of sexual brutality to know not only Vallens, but himself. Lynch sees these rites of passage as horrific and scarifying, but inevitable, primal, essentially human. In a way Lynch is at war with repression; his heroes are superegos in a relentlessly allid world...