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...outrage. They show that, instead of improving at a steady pace, the nation's infant-mortality rate leveled off at 9.7 deaths per 1,000 births in 1989. It now stands at twice the rate of Japan and below that of 23 other countries, including less affluent ones like Spain and Singapore. More troubling, infant mortality remains one of the nation's starkest measures of the separation between blacks and whites: twice as many black babies as white die within their first year...
...much as 50%; 44,000 airline workers worldwide, from machinists in Kansas City to flight attendants in Amsterdam, have lost their jobs since January. USAir, which reported $221 million in losses for the fourth quarter, last week laid off 3,600 workers. Belgium's national airline, Sabena, and Spain's flagship carrier, Iberia, each announced plans to eliminate more than 2,000 jobs. British Airways, which suffered a 72% profit decline last quarter, cut 4,600 jobs while mothballing five Boeing planes worth $1.5 billion...
During the century after Muhammad's death in 632, Muslim conquerors established sway from Spain to the borders of India. Islamic scholars of the era emphasized militaristic verses of the Koran over those that counsel peacemaking. Muslims spoke of the earth as being divided between the dar ul- Islam (realm of Islam) and the dar ul-harb (realm of war), implying a need for ongoing combat to extend the faith's domain. In succeeding centuries, as Muslims consolidated a multinational empire, the language of militant jihad faded...
...Chevenement had put himself in an impossible position, managing his government's participation in a war he stubbornly opposed; he resigned and was succeeded by Pierre Joxe, a loyal follower of President Francois Mitterrand. The U.S. won permission to fly B-52 bombers out of bases in Britain and Spain on missions to the gulf. That will allow it to attack the Republican Guards with more of the giant planes than can be accommodated at bases in Saudi Arabia and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. The agreement was no surprise in the case of loyal ally Britain...
...more than 60% of the coalition's 675,000 active personnel, among them deployments ranging from 36,000 crack Egyptian infantrymen down to some Afghan mujahedin guerrillas and 150 troops from Honduras. What the smaller land contingents -- as well as the token few warships sent by countries like Australia, Spain and Greece -- could accomplish that the alliance's core partners could not remained unanswered by the Pentagon. Even such a muscular U.S. ally as Italy, moreover, kept its participation to a minimum. Said Sergeant Robert Castellano, 26, a U.S. airman: "We look at our troop strength and we look...