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Flashback Challenge #2

For Kevin: April 19, 1992...(fixed)

'BLAMING THE RESOURCELESS'
Washington Post
April 19, 1992

We can stop using the phrase "blaming the victim" and start using "blaming the resourceless." The Bush administration is once again making idealistic demands on welfare recipients without providing an ounce of assistance in helping them get out of the poverty they suffer. On April 11, Mr. Bush told welfare recipients {"Bush Urges Responsibility With Welfare," news story, April 12} of the obligations they bear in receiving public funds. These included...

WHITE HOUSE REPORTEDLY LET SAUDIS TRANSFER U.S.-MADE ARMS TO SADDAM
Los Angeles Times
April 19, 1992

The Bush and Reagan administrations secretly allowed Saudi Arabia to provide American-made weapons to the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and other nations over almost 10 years in covert operations designed to sidestep legal restrictions imposed by Congress, according to classified documents.

Among other material, the Saudis transferred an undisclosed number of 2,000-pound, U.S.-made bombs to Iraq in 1986 and, after the end of the Persian Gulf War last year, provided Syria and Bangladesh with...

U.S. GETS HIGHHANDED OVER EUROPEAN BANK
HOBART ROWEN, Washington Post
April 19, 1992

Arrogance is not a commodity in short supply on the international scene. But America's partners complain that no one can top recent insensitive performances by President Bush and Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady on economic issues.

The growing tension comes at an awkward moment, just ahead of international meetings in Washington next weekend when the major nations will need to hammer out a game plan to avert a threatened global recession.

The public squabbling hit a peak, when...

DID AMERICA EVER MAKE ANYTHING?
HOW OFFICIAL STATISTICS KEEP SHRINKING THE NATION'S INDUSTRIAL PAST
Arnold Packer, Washington Post
April 19, 1992

WILL MANUFACTURING be in our future? No one knows for sure. What may be more surprising is that, judging from the numbers on the past and present structure of the U.S. economy that the government periodically issues, we cannot even be sure that manufacturing will always be in our past

The backward trend revealed in the changing official view of the 1950 economy points clearly to that conclusion. Today, for example, the government says that manufacturing accounted for one-fifth of our

THE GOOD TIMES STILL ROLL -- FOR THE FEW
April 19, 1992
Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe

William Aramony was forced out of the presidency of the United Way for making $463,000. That was small pickings. He pales next to Lee Iacocca, Robert Stempel and Harold Poling. They made a combined $8.4 million in 1990 as CEOs of Chrysler, GM and Ford, respectively. Yet they lost their companies a combined $7.5 billion in 1991. Or take Steve Ross of Time Warner in New York. He made $78.2 million in compensation in 1990, while the media conglomerate lost $326 million the past two years, lost...

THE OTHER CHARACTER QUESTION
Washinton Post
April 19, 1992
Section: EDITORIAL

GEORGE BUSH was asked a fundamental character question of his own the other day, on welfare reform. "If you are so concerned with this issue, why haven't you been closely involved with it for the last three years?

"The politics drives some things," Mr. Bush agreeably replied, having just described reform a few sentences before as "a matter of compassion." "A lot of the issues we're talking about ... they get much more clearly in focus every four years, ...

And just replace Perot with Nader...or Dean?

THE POLITICS OF ALIENATION
Boston Globe
April 19, 1992

H. Ross Perot's potential run for the presidency is not about H. Ross Perot. It is about the most intense voter alienation seen in decades. It is about what underlies the alienation: a phenomenal convergence of social and economic circumstances, as diverse as the economic and power- shifting implications of the end of the Cold War, and an American government too paralyzed by political game-playing to take action on any issue.