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- THE WEEK, Page 21NATIONEt Cetera
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- TANKS A LOT
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- If George Bush needs a new job soon, he might try peddling
- hardware. He has already rung up one sale worth perhaps $4
- billion. Responding to a letter from the President to the Emir,
- the Kuwaitis decided to buy 236 U.S.-built Abrams tanks instead
- of British Challengers. Granted, the circumstances were special.
- After Desert Storm, perhaps no nation is more anxious to retain
- American goodwill than Kuwait. And few gestures would win more
- presidential gratitude than a contract just before the election
- that will preserve 5,900 jobs in the vote-rich states of
- Michigan and Ohio.
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