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...racial and class rift that largely reserved combat in Vietnam for the poor and uneducated still has not been resolved. Given that, the last thing we need is an item which seems to mock the severity of the situation, which has the appearance of saying, "Oh yes, I remember you. Here's a sweatshirt and some gum. Thanks for the effort. As you can see, we're behind you all the way, sacrificing right alongside you. Oh, and don't worry. I charged it on my Visa...
...differences are "extraordinarily minor." Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze both said the Security Council needed to take further action against Iraq, but neither would use what journalists have begun to call "the F word." At a hastily scheduled press conference back in Moscow, Gorbachev dismissed talk of a rift with Bush and suggested, with a smile, that U.S. reporters were "trying to find some crack" in the coalition. Nonetheless, the Soviet President continued to dodge questions about whether he would support a use-of-force resolution...
None of that, however, softened Shamir's defiance. He managed to widen the U.S.-Israeli rift by shrugging off a personal letter from President Bush asking him to accept a U.N. investigation of the Temple Mount riot, in which Israeli police killed 20 Palestinians. Bush advised Shamir to get out of the headlines and let the spotlight return to Iraq. When Shamir refused to budge, the U.S. supported a unanimous Security Council resolution "deploring" Israel's intransigence, the second U.N. condemnation of Israel in just 12 days. Keeping up his barrage of harsh talk, Secretary of State James Baker called...
...P.L.O. objected bitterly to the final wording of the resolution, but for the moment the compromise had spared the alliance against Saddam from a major rift. Even Washington's Western allies on the Council were prepared to accept Yemen's original draft and were concerned by the prospect of an American veto. As the Arab states saw it, the issue was whether there was one international law for Arab governments and another for non-Arabs. "This time the world community must prove that principles (such as those used to justify collective action against the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) are indivisible...
...each other. But the New Madrid fault lies in the middle of the North American plate, seemingly far from harm's way. Why do earthquakes occur in such an out- of-the-way spot? By analyzing seismic data, scientists have concluded that the New Madrid fault is a failed rift, or break, in the North American plate. Had it progressed further, the embryonic gap might have created a body of water like the Red Sea, which is slowly widening into an ocean. But hundreds of millions of years ago, the Midwestern rift stopped growing. The New Madrid fault today simply...