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...Fujitsu moves to seize a greater market share in Europe, it is likely to move cautiously, though surefootedly. No one appreciates that threat more than...
...Valdez spilled 11 million gal. of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, the U.S. still lacks the ability to cope speedily with such disasters. That shortcoming was dramatically illustrated last week when a Greek tanker crashed into three oil barges in the Houston Ship Channel near Galveston. Though Houston handles more crude oil than any other U.S. port, no fast-response cleanup team is stationed in Texas. By the time emergency crews from along the Gulf Coast arrived, 500,000 gal. of crude had leaked into the relatively shallow Galveston Bay, threatening shrimp, oysters, crabs and birds...
...answer is that in the age of the fax and the fiber-optic cable, federation is the future. But federation works only under the condition of freedom. Otherwise what passes for federation is really colonialism. And though colonialism had a good 500-year run, it is spent. The only way to turn colonial empires into real federations is to allow them to break up into their constituent parts and hope that in their wisdom they will see fit to knit themselves back together again...
Fifty years ago, when Hitler's tanks were poised at the English Channel and his bombers were pounding London, Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that the U.S., though still neutral, had to supply Britain with the military equipment it desperately needed. "We must admit that there is risk in any course we may take," F.D.R. said on a national radio broadcast. But backing America's natural ally "involves the least risk now and the greatest hope for world peace in the future...
While an estimated 300 Iraqi tanks prowled the city, an additional 50 surrounded the Emir's palace and the nearby U.S. embassy. But the Emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, and his family were able to flee to Saudi Arabia by helicopter. Though the invaders had quickly seized Kuwait's radio and television station, a hidden transmitter continued to broadcast exhortations to resist the raiding foreigners and pleas for help from other Arab states. "O Arabs, Kuwait's blood and honor are being violated. Rush to its rescue!" cried a voice thought to be the crown prince...