Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...time to cut the life-support system leading to the hungry maw of the insurance industry. The insurance companies can't have it both ways: they can't refuse to insure the poor, the old and the sick while simultaneously campaigning to prevent a government program to cover everyone alike. The very meaning of insurance is risk sharing -- the well throwing in their lot with the sick, the young with the old, the affluent with the down-and-out. If private enterprise won't do the job, then let private enterprise...
While governments around the world have rallied to join George Bush's anti- Saddam coalition, popular support for military involvement in the gulf is shallow even among some of America's staunchest allies. For other countries tangled in the alliance, war is a minority, potentially untenable proposition...
...poll for the Times of London showed 62% of those surveyed backing the use of U.S. and British troops against Iraq if Saddam Hussein refuses to leave Kuwait. Even the opposition Labour Party has consistently backed the government's gulf policy. However, in spite of current levels of support, pollsters believe public approval will decline dramatically as casualties mount...
Germany has pledged $2.2 billion to support the coalition, but militarily it is comfortably noninvolved. None of its soldiers have been or will be sent to the gulf, and virtually all the German hostages returned from Iraq two weeks ago. There have been only minor antiwar demonstrations. Fuel-price increases have failed to stimulate debate: long before the current crisis, Bonn imposed heavy gasoline taxes to encourage conservation; thus higher costs for crude only marginally affected German pump prices, which run in excess...
Turkey has won praise from Washington for its support. But Prime Minister Turgut Ozal's hawkishness may have led the West to overrate Turkey's commitment. In a recent poll, 72% of respondents opposed Turkish military involvement...