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Thus Bush's reversal on taxes required delicate handling. By the beginning of 1990, many Administration officials openly acknowledged the need for taxes. These included Darman and Sununu, aides to each explained, though neither admitted it publicly. And Bush? No one is sure, but those closest to him suspect that the President accepted the need for a tax hike gradually, not at some specific moment. The real question was, When should the U turn take place? Wait until 1991 and the reversal could damage Bush's 1992 re-election campaign. Wait until late 1990 and it might overshadow the budget...
Freedom may prove a mixed blessing for the predominant Russian Orthodox Church, which retained prerogatives under the old Soviet regime in return for passivity before a heavy-handed state. The Soviet government has returned more than 1,000 churches, but money for needed repairs is sorely lacking. Though disenchanted atheists are flocking to the old faith, there are too few trained priests to greet them. Father Alexander Borisov, a Moscow city councilman, says many lay churchgoers "have never even read the Gospels." Little wonder: scarce Bibles still sell in Moscow churches for 200 rubles (roughly one month...
...trying his best to offer Saddam Hussein a face-saving way to withdraw from Kuwait. That might also serve eventually to win more support for future military action against Iraq; the President would be able to argue that he had first exhausted all possibilities for a peaceful solution. Simultaneously, though, Bush wanted to tell hard-liners (Britain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, many members of the U.S. Congress) that Saddam would not be rewarded for his aggression...
...resolution authorizing the use of force, however, is something the ) U.S. is exploring, though for the moment not pushing. It would further turn up the heat on Saddam and might spur him either to withdraw from Kuwait or to launch a pre-emptive strike that would justify an allied counterattack. But dovish allies want other options pursued first. In addition, the U.S. and its allies would need ironclad assurances that China would not veto the resolution in the Security Council, and they have yet to begin seriously exploring conditions for Beijing's approval. The U.S. is counting on other...
...withdrawing one of this season's airport novels. You know the kind. Literary wide-bodies with plenty of plot that allow you to leave the real world in the first half paragraph and stay away through several flight-delay announcements. No-qual prose and cereal-box characters are customary, though an occasional lapse into good writing does no harm. The Odyssey and Moby Dick, both wide-bodies before their time, would have been perfect airport novels. Herewith a random grab of half a dozen new airporters, none written by Homer or Herman Melville...