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...sick of democracy and want a guy who can sell his personal series of fix-it plans to the country, fine. If you want a guy who doesn't mind trampling on the Constitution to achieve his ends, then go ahead and pull the trigger. And if you want a guy whose accomplishments through government illustrate everything--particularly the marriage of money and power--that's wrong with American politics, then Perot's your...
...even that won't be the end of it. If Kosovo blows, so may Macedonia, where there is a large Albanian population. That could trigger an intervention from Greece, which takes a mischievously proprietary interest in the birthplace of Alexander the Great. Greece's involvement could, in turn, provoke its old antagonist Turkey to enter the fray, and history really will have come full circle...
...experiment. Police chief Pastore, who has worked hard to reduce friction between cops and city residents, sees to it that his officers cooperate with the needle-exchange van. If, for instance, a police car patrols too close to an exchange site, a quick call to the chief will trigger a radioed instruction sending the car in another direction. Ultimately, Pastore hopes to restore trust between police and addicts who may need their help...
...International Monetary Fund. The step has symbolic importance: fueled by cold war animosities, the Soviet Union never joined the global bodies, formed by the Western powers at the Bretton Woods monetary conference in 1944. But last week's move has immediate practical implications as well. It will trigger the release of much of the $24 billion in aid that has been pledged by the major industrialized nations to help the former Soviets convert to a free-market economy...
...toward raising money and getting candidates elected. Other pro-abortion rights groups have launched a campaign to force a change in the party platform's antiabortion language. Their chance of success is slim because George Bush is sticking to his antiabortion stance to placate conservatives. That rigid stand could trigger a revolt by Republican women who are threatening to cross party lines to support candidates who favor the right to abortion. "All my adult life I have been a devoted Republican woman," says Harriett Wieder, a member of the board of supervisors in Orange County, Calif...