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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...especially propitious. For one thing, there is the p.r. problem of launching a war in the holiday season, though the U.S. went into Panama Dec. 20. For another, some 150,000 additional U.S. troops will not be in place until...
...quickly overtake fury. The folks back home develop warm feelings toward the legislator who sends out chatty newsletters (printed at government expense), who traces Grandpa's lost Social Security check (by turning the chore over to a government-paid assistant) and fights to keep the local airbase open (though it contributes nothing to the national defense...
...eight-day, seven-country swing through the Middle East, the Soviet Union and Europe with more -- if at times somewhat cautious -- backing for U.S. policy than ever. The wavering Soviets, who have been contradictory in their signals, declared, however reluctantly, that they recognize war may indeed be necessary. Though no one would say it in so many words, the U.S.S.R., China (whose Foreign Minister, Qian Qichen, Baker met in Cairo) and France indicated that they would at least not veto a Security Council resolution approving the use of force. But the allies generally made it clear that such a resolution...
Increasingly, though, it is the illegal aliens who are victims of violent assaults by whites. Armed robbers and overzealous U.S. Border Patrol agents ^ are responsible for countless beatings and shootings of immigrants at the frontier. But human-rights activists say San Diego's racial attacks are a microcosm of hate crimes flaring nationally. In one of several attacks involving white youths, Leonard Paul Cuen, 21, was questioned last May and remains a suspect in connection with the death of Emilio Jimenez, 12. The boy was shot as he crossed a field not far from the site of the protest...
Meanwhile, Helms, 69, was a prisoner of the budget impasse in Washington. The numerous targets of his wrath -- homosexuals, feminists, welfare programs, artwork he considers obscene, diplomats he deems squishy -- continued to be handy foils for the legislator known as "Senator No." For a time, though, Helms' campaign seemed to lack the hard edge of his previous crusades. His early TV spots attacking Gantt as too liberal on issues such as abortion and gay rights fired up rural "Jessecrats" but not moderates and fence-sitters. Gantt raised enough money to match Helms' TV blitz in the final weeks...