Word: though
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...Though the Germans go to great lengths to reaffirm the strength and durability of the Bonn-Paris axis, France is fretting about the possibility of a Europe dominated by Germany. "What worries the French," says Gerald Long, former managing director of Reuters, "is the success of their own policy of locking Germany firmly into the European Community." It is not admitted publicly in Paris, but French officials shudder at the numbers: unified Germany's gross national product is $1.1 trillion, France's $762 billion. Almost 70% -- or $62 billion -- of the Federal Republic's trade surplus of $90 billion...
...Though the wealthy can afford the Kuwaiti delicacies on sale in the fancy food shops of Masbah and Al-Mansur, ordinary Iraqis are being squeezed by rationing and rising prices at government-owned stores. The cost of Marlboros has increased threefold since the invasion. "You can find everything at the private market, but who can pay?" says a man outside a grocery...
Many restaurants have been closed; too many staples, needed for rationing over the long haul, were being consumed. There is almost no bread in the city. Though the downtown streets are jammed every night, there are few customers in the stores. "Business is very bad," concedes a senior minister. "The blockade is hurting." Meanwhile, says Information Minister Latif Jassim, "morale is very high, and the people are very strong...
...mouth. In another a man's fist and forearm is seen inserted into a man's rectum. Two images -- a nude boy on a chair and a little girl whose dress is raised in a way that exposes her genitals -- led to charges of illegal use of a minor, though the mothers of the children gave Mapplethorpe permission to take the photographs and the center to display them. "Where would you draw the line?" asks Monty Lobb, president of Citizens for Community Values, a local group that first drew the show to the sheriff's attention. "Will next year...
...quest to give Argentina a greater international profile, President Carlos Menem may be sailing into troubled waters. Last week two missile- bearing Argentine frigates departed to join the forces in the Persian Gulf. Menem, who is of Syrian descent, dispatched the vessels even though the help was not requested. "Argentina, long considered not serious or reliable, will slowly change its image," he declared. A poll indicates that 70% of his fellow citizens oppose the move, which ironically places Argentina in alliance with Britain, its enemy in the 1982 Falklands...