Edition: U.S. / Global  THE WORLD; Some Things Are More Vital
Than Money When It Comes to Creating the World Anew  Published:
September 22, 1991  THE United States, the world's one remaining
superpower, also has the world's biggest hole in its pocket. The
national debt, just $1 trillion a decade ago, is now $3.5
trillion. The Federal budget deficit is expected to swell the
national debt by $362 billion in the fiscal year 1992, which
begins Oct. 1. And the net foreign debt -- foreigners' assets in
this country minus Americans' assets abroad, measured at their
current replacement value -- swung from a surplus of $364
billion in 1982 to a deficit of $412 billion in 1990, a $776
billion plunge that is still going on.  Yet the United States,
with "more will than wallet," in President Bush's words, is
still taking the lead in efforts to deal with crises all over
the world: dispatching American planes to Saudi Arabia to force
Saddam Hussein of Iraq to yield to United Nations inspection of
his nuclear, biological and