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The article discusses the presidency of former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush. Topics include the relation of Bush's presidency to changes in the U.S. Republican Party, bipartisan legislation signed by Bush such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and tax reform, and Bush's foreign policy in relation to military deployments.

Offers a look at President George Bush's farewell tour which was part bittersweet, part attempt to firm up a foreign-policy agenda that would be hard for Bill Clinton to abandon. His last trip overseas as president; Polished up his diplomatic legacy and secured its future; Stop at Saudi Arabia; Trip to Somalia to visit with the soldiers he had sent into action; Went to Moscow to sign the last superpower arms-control deal of the cold-war era; More.

Comments on the leadership United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Federalist dream of a supranational technocracy run by statement who stand outside of national loyalties; Boutros-Ghali's status in Egypt as an insider by class and an outsider by ethnicity; Views suggesting that Boutros-Ghali's status as an ethnic outsider made him a useful instrument for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in pursuing peace with Israel; Opposition of the administration of former U.S. President George Bush to Boutros-Gali.

Reports that Iraq, Libya and Israel are test cases of U.S. President George Bush's 1992 Middle East policy and the new world order. Plan to remove the governments in those countries; Resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict; Role of the administration of U.S. President George Bush in the Arab-Israeli peace process; Sanctions laid down on Libya by the U.S.; Withdrawal of the loan guarantees made earlier to the Israeli government by the U.S.; Statement that the new world order points to a significant change in U.S. Middle East policy, despite an apparent continuity of American interests in the region; Policy of the U.S. towards the Gulf War.

Discusses how United States President George Bush' government helped Iraq president Saddam Hussein before diplomatic relations between the countries ended. Financial aid provided by the United States to Iraq; View that the State Department and the National Security Council encouraged American companies to sell dual-use technology to Saddam that helped advance his intercontinental missile plans; Allegations that the U.S. government under the administrations of former president Ronald Reagan and Bush fed Iraq with U.S. intelligence secrets; Criticism against the Bush government for not acting immediately over Hussein's threats against his neighbor countries.

Examines U.S. President George Bush's so-called plan for New World Order (NWO) after the successful conclusion of the Persian Gulf War. Benefits from the NWO, according to the administration; Fear by many Americans that the U.S. will be the world's policeman; View by many foreigners that it will be a post-cold-war American grab for hegemony; Role of the Soviet Union in the NWO; Possible pitfalls in Bush's NWO plan which is comparable to the Truman and Eisenhower administrations' actions after World War II.

The article discusses U.S. president George H.W. Bush's leadership during the end of the Cold War and U.S. involvement in expelling Iraq from Kuwait during the Gulf War. It compares his presidency to that of former U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower, particularly what the authors identify as their principled and gracious approach to the office and foreign relations.

Muses that while President George Bush loves the motion and intrigue of foreign affairs, on the domestic front he is a reluctant soldier, appearing to be trapped by fears of political repercussions and an unwillingness to alienate key constituencies. Leave it to Dick and John; A tree grows in Spokane. INSET: Engaged abroad distracted at home..

This article presents information on various socio-political and administrative developments in the U.S. and from around the world. The U.S. President George Bush's policy towards the gulf war and its linkages to the speech that he delivered before the joint session of the U.S. Congress. The gulf war, gave Bush the opportunity to plump for cutting the capital gains tax and against "punishing" the rich with higher marginal rates. He came out for more nuclear power and for ravaging the Alaskan wilderness in search of oil. He admitted that there will be no peace dividend and he all but promised that U.S. troops will stay in the gulf theater from here to eternity.

Examines the ways in which United States President George Bush uses foreign policy as his most effective weapon in domestic politics. Three meetings between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and representative groups that worked to Bush's political advantage; Compares Bush with his predecessor, Ronald Reagan.

Discusses the special circumstances that justified U.S. President George Bush's decision to invade Panama. Particular danger that Panama President Manuel Noriega was posing to Americans; Treaties requiring the Panama Canal to be turned over to Panamian authority; Role of the U.S. in inadvertently putting Noriega on the road to power; Despotism of the Noriega regime; Questions of what to do with Noriega; Panamanian justice system; Issue of sovereignty.

Focuses on the relationship between the United States and several Middle East countries. Factors influencing the countries' relations; Reasons behind the importance given by U.S. President George Bush to Middle East over Japan despite the latter's significance on U.S. trade; Reasons for the interest of Bush in the political conditions of Middle East countries; Statement that the Middle East was certainly the most active arena of the U.S.-Soviet struggle; Benefits of the oil supplies of Iraq for the U.S.; Promise of Bush to support for Iraq's military chiefs if they would only give him his personal victory by getting rid of dictator Saddam Hussein; Statement that Bush relied on personal contacts in conducting foreign policy; Political problems faced by Israel.

Analyzes United States President George H.W. Bush's concept of the presidency, based on his actions and pronouncements leading up to his campaign for reelection. Author's description of Bush' idea of the executive as imperial half-presidency; Indulgence in rhetoric that claimed federal power could do little to solve national problems; Bush's reliance on major foreign events to intervene in his domestic inertia; Campaign strategy of proffering claims of good faith in his handling of domestic affairs.

Assesses the impact of the Persian Gulf War on the United States Democratic Party. Advantages provided by the result of the war for the Republicans; Conflict within the Democratic Party over domestic problems; Failure of the Democrats to learn from the Gulf War about their basic political liabilities; Democratic Party's goal of shifting the public's focus to domestic issues; Strategy of portraying President George Bush as being attentive to foreign policy but negligent of domestic concerns; Two schools of thought in the Democratic Party for a domestic agenda.

This article describes the relations of China and the U.S. as of June 1, 1991. According to the author, the relations of China and the U.S. are in disarray. China's current leaders complain of continued U.S. sanctions, the refusal of the administration of U.S. President George Bush to engage in high-level official exchanges and the deterioration in the quality of consultations on matters of common strategic interest. They protest President Bush's April 1991 meeting with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader. They believe the United States has sought to restrain other leading industrialized nations in the Group of Seven from restoring relations with China to the levels that existed prior to the events in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. Washington is also accused of discouraging a rapid and full restoration of lending to China by international financial institutions. And behind these charges are more deep-seated fears--of another era of U.S. global hegemonism and a U.S. design to undermine China's communist regime. Meanwhile, at least among key opinion molders in Congress and the U.S. media, China's leaders are scorned and disdained. Memories of the June 4, 1989, massacre in Beijing remain vivid in the U.S. mind.

Speculates that President George Bush lost his reelection campaign because of he failed to understand that the public desired not to abandon foreign policy but to bring it into balance with domestic policies. Public perception that America's Gulf victory was a transitory success wrapped in a larger failure; President temporized while the former Yugoslavia burned; Bush's preferred mode of competent reaction; The vision thing; The trust thing; Bill Clinton as centrist.

Presents a speech by United States President George Bush, `President Bush Remarks on Mikhail S. Gorbachev's Resignation,' televised to the nation from Washington, D.C. on December 25, 1991. Bush's comments on the honored place in history which Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev will hold.

States that while President George Bush's popularity is flagging, leaders of the industrial democracies would like to rally to Bush but they're in such deep political trouble themselves. A season of discontent has settled upon the world's leading democracies; Great Britain's battle against Labor; France's demand for a new election; German reunification stirring up anger; Japan's growing scandals and slowing economy; Presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan's strategy.

Criticizes President George Bush's passive response to Lithuania's efforts toward independence. Three suggested reasons for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's refusal to grant independence to the Baltics at the present time; Why the West appears to have accepted his policy; Call upon Bush and other top Western leaders to exert pressure on Gorbachev to change his policy.

Comments on the eagerness of the United States President George H.W. Bush Administration to achieve the first-ever face-to-face official peace dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. Implication of the administration's effort on Bush's re-election bid; Reason behind the Israel government's refusal to talk to the Palestine Liberation Organization; Background on a crisis within Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud party which would affect the peace negotiations.

Focuses on the decision of United States President George Bush not to get involved in the transfer of power in Poland. Bush's effort to maintain a low profile to prevent making the change seem more threatening to the Soviet Union; Amount of aid pledged by the U.S. to Poland for the latter's economic recovery programs; Economic and political interests of the U.S. in Poland; Suggestion that Poland has become the showcase of U.S. experimentation in Eastern Europe.

Focuses on views expressed by former president Richard Nixon regarding U.S. President George Bush's foreign policy towards Russian government of Boris Yeltsin. Aspects of the incumbent government's foreign policy criticized by Nixon; Views that Nixon also advised similar policy towards Russia in his opinion expressed in the periodical "Time"; Similarity between attitude of Nixon and Bush towards those who overcommitted themselves to Mikhail Gorbachev; Effort of William Safire, the former Nixon phrase-maker and a "Times" columnist, to laud Nixon; Discussion about the importance given by various periodicals to the story.

Presents a brief on U.S. President George Bush's trip to Japan. Arrival ceremonies at Tokyo Airport; Description of the drive going to Bush's official residence; Recreational activities prepared for the President and his party; Visit of Bush to government officer and places of business; Argument pertaining to Bush's official meetings with Japanese political leaders; Comments of Bush on Japanese cuisine.

Argues that, contrary to popular opinion, United States President George H.W. Bush's conduct of foreign policy lacks professionalism and vision. His misjudgment of the changes in the Soviet Union after the cold war; Error of making Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev the center of American diplomacy; Failure of the Gulf War to remove Saddam Hussein from power; Plight of the Kurds in Iraq; Pressuring Israel into concessions before a peace conference is convened; Policy in Europe and in relation to the European Community.

Criticizes the U.S. policy of appeasing Syria and helping it virtually annex Lebanon. Participation of Syria in the anti-Iraq coalition during the Persian Gulf War because the Iraqi Ba'ath and the Syrian Ba'ath have long been vying with each other to dominate the region; Failure to consider the sins Syria committed against the American people in the past; Secretary of State James Baker and President George Bush's plan to convince Israel to give up the Golan Heights; Decision of the U.S. government to insist on a U.N. presence at Arab-Israeli peace talks; Author's claim that the appeasement of Syria will probably fail on its own terms.

Examines U.S. President George Bush's so-called plan for New World Order (NWO) after the successful conclusion of the Persian Gulf War. Phrase developed by Brent Scowcroft, Bush's national security adviser; Concept of collective security; Defeat of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as a deterrent to other potential aggressors; Idea that this collective security is actually unilateral American action with a multilateral cover; Moral issue in the Gulf War and the NWO; Bush's debate with Edmund Browning, the presiding bishop of Bush's church, the Episcopal Church.

Comments on United States President George Bush's policy on Iraq, and the political issues surrounding the Gulf war. Bush's attempt to lead the country into the "next American century," as he put it in his State of the Union; Statement issued by White house Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater that the Bush administration does not believe that the Gulf conflict is a partisan issue; Moral issues concerning the Gulf war; Optimism of the Bush administration that the U.S. will win the war, creating a "New World Order".

States that United States President George Bush will visit Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Greece, Turkey, the Soviet Union, Australia and Japan this year.

Details the relationship between United States President George Bush and former President Richard Nixon, one that has flowered over the past six months through telephone calls and lengthy letters on Bush's policy toward China after the Tiananmen Square massacre and on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Advice on Kuwait; Mutual experiences; Sharing a hard-headed, pragmatic view of international affairs.

Reports that United States President George Bush's upcoming state-of-the-union speech is expected to be short, and to focus on matters abroad.

Opinion. Contends that US President George Bush has become the wrong kind of president for this kind of era and his frenetic diplomacy has become a national embarrassment. Opposes Bush's neglect of his presidential responsibilities regarding affairs within America's borders; How Bush travels too much abroad; His stance on arms control; The deficit problem; The START Treaty's trivial effect.

Highlights the attempt of U.S. President George Bush to expand ties with Russia. Focus on economic links between the two countries; Information on the package of technical assistance, trade benefits, and credits that Bush has been quietly shaping for Russia; Details of the issues to be discussed by Bush when he meets Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Group of Seven leaders meeting in London, England, following their July 15-17, 1991 summit.

Argues that U.S. President George Bush should name a high-level envoy or permanent task force to coordinate United States policy in Eastern Europe. Information on the price rise of essentials such as coal and electricity in the country; Prospect of widespread factory shutdowns and layoffs as Warsaw, Poland slashes its subsidies to inefficient state-run industries; Discussion of the efforts of Poland's newly democratic government related to the qualification of the country for a loan package promised by the International Monetary Fund.

This article forecasts the policy of U.S. President-elect George Bush over Central America in 1989. Bush is likely to pay more attention to problems such as the huge debts of the region. He will tone down confrontations on the Congress over Central America and the region shrink to a more modest scale among U.S. concerns. Moreover, Bush has little choice. President Ronald Reagan backed contra guerrillas against Sandinistas in Nicaragua, but the contras, denied further arms by the Congress in February 1988, are no longer on effective fighting force. Bush has made clear that he will not risk alienating the Democratic-controlled Congress and losing an early legislative fight by asking more weapons. Paul H. Boeker, president of the California-based Institute of the Americas, and others hope that Bush will take the opportunity to enlist the backing of major Latin countries for a renewed push by Central American leaders to settle regional conflicts under the 1987 Esquipulas pact. In El Salvador, massive U.S. aid has helped the government and army fight the Marxist Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). If Bush's conservative backers deter him from supporting serious talks between the Salvadoran government and the FMLN, which Reagan opposed, the prospect is for protracted war.

Muses that United States President George Bush, in showing the restraint necessary to lead an international effort that cuts across both East-West and North-South divides, may establish a precedent for collective-security arrangements more enduring than the consequences of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's villainy. Resisting the `Gang Busters' option; Dick Cheney; Richard Perle; Henry Kissinger; General Michael Dugan.

Opinion. Discusses the reasons President George Bush is able to appear more competent when dealing with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the Persian Gulf issue than when dealing with such domestic problems as the savings and loan (S&L) scandal and the budget deficit.

Explores how China has skillfully worked its way back from diplomatic isolation in recent months and considers the challenges the country faces in light of a changed world. Impact of the Tiananmen Square events; Effects of shrinking Soviet power on China; US President George Bush's New World Order; Chinese reaction to the new Soviet-American relationship.

Discusses `At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War,' by Michael R. Beschloss and Strobe Talbott. Details the role George Bush played in the events which led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its success in almost instantly building democratic and capitalist institutions; What undermined Bush's original plan to distance himself from Gorbachev; The collapse of East Germany; Bush's chief concern was to keep a reunited Germany in NATO; Details.

Presents the text of a letter from United States President George Bush to Speaker of the House of Representatives and President Pro Tempore of the Senate, January, 1992, concerning the status of efforts to obtain compliance by Iraq with the resolutions adopted by the United Nations (UN) Security Council. Iraq continues to be uncooperative and obstructive with respect to inspection of identified sites.

Presents remarks by United States President George Bush at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit, Rome, Italy, November 1991, concerning military strategy and approval of a fundamentally new strategic doctrine for Europe. Four defining questions; Revolutionary forces at work in the Soviet Union; The American perspective. INSET: Post-Cold War opportunities for security and partnership..

Presents excerpts from the Reuter transcript of President George Bush's remarks during a campaign swing through Orlando, Fla., Nov. 1, 1990.

The article focuses on issues concerning the United States' decision to sell 150 F-16 fighter aircraft to Taiwan. In an election year, approval for the sale of expensive weapons to Taiwan has a lot to do with U.S. President George Bush's need to win votes at home. But, though some of his reasons may be suspect, Bush is right to show China a warning flag. China used to be able to present itself to the West as the cuddlier sort of communist. But with the only competition now coming from the Cubas, Vietnams and North Koreas, that time is gone. For most of the 1980s China was militarily modest, economically adventurous and engagingly open to the outside world.