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...pullout may hasten a trend in which dozens of insurers have left New Jersey, Massachusetts, California and other states in disputes over rates. Most notably, Allstate's move could set the stage for a major showdown in California, where regulators plan to implement Proposition 103. That measure, which mandates a 20% rollback of auto and other insurance premiums, has been bottled up by legal challenges since voters approved...
...showdown is really about the Shamir administration's policy of rapidly and provocatively expanding Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights. This policy directly compromises both the atmosphere of a possible peace conference and the geographic possibility of trading land for peace...
...showdown began June 6, when Serafeim Fyntanidis, managing editor of the liberal daily Eleftherotypia, was arrested for publishing November 17's claim of responsibility for a series of bombings. Six papers followed suit the next day. Despite their incarceration in the Korydallos maximum-security prison, near Athens, the convicted editors continue to run their papers by phone. "The battle we started will not end here," says Fyntanidis. "We will continue -- in or out of prison...
ALTHOUGH GATES hasn't received quite as much press as Thomas, his confirmation hearings will be the real showdown between the Senate Democrats and the president...
Yakovlev tried several times to dissuade Gorbachev from this course. Rather than intimidating the democratic opposition, he warned, a showdown would confirm the widespread suspicion that Gorbachev had, in his desperation, thrown in his lot with the reactionaries. And even if disaster was avoided, a decision to pit the military muscle of the center against peaceful demonstrators would backfire against Gorbachev, strengthening Yeltsin's popular base...