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...Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John H. Shattuck, explaining why he withdrew his name from consideration for the presidency of American University in Washington...
...quite like it. In the Persian Gulf, 430,000 U.S. troops prepared to launch into battle against the Iraqi invaders of neighboring Kuwait. An American President had dispatched those troops to the Middle East, and the United Nations had authorized the use of force against the Iraqis unless they withdrew by Jan. 15. Yet Congress, the only branch of government with the constitutional power to declare war, had still not spoken, and the President was threatening to move with or without the lawmakers' approval. Last week, after the failure of the Geneva talks between Secretary of State James Baker...
...Palestinian problem convened. Saddam might view these as sufficient concessions to enable him to continue posturing as the strongman of the Middle East. On the other hand, recalls a Bush adviser, "we have said ourselves that Saddam probably would be overthrown and assassinated by his own people if he withdrew unconditionally from Kuwait." Though many experts doubt that this would happen, the dictator might have to be convinced that he runs an even greater risk of being killed in a war that only a complete pullout could avert...
Regulators moved swiftly last week to keep the failure at the Bank of New England Corp. from rippling through the region's ailing economy. They acted when nervous depositors withdrew $800 million from the holding company's three major banks, including the flagship Bank of New England, after the firm predicted a loss of up to $450 million for the fourth quarter of 1990. On Jan. 6, a Sunday, the government seized the banks and said it would immediately pump in $750 million as part of a $2.3 billion bailout financed by the FDIC fund. The rescue covered more than...
...described the fitness hurdle to his editors as "a blatant violation of my constitutional rights, but the correct thing to do" Some journalists asked whether civilian and military officials on inspection tours would face the same rule. Pentagon officials eventually conceded that they had gone overboard and withdrew the test, but said they would still expect correspondents to be fit enough to cope with the desert...