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...Bush Administration soon adopted a more seemly tone -- restrained, conciliatory, even a tad remorseful about the earlier chest pounding. Legal experts warned that official American name calling might jeopardize the prosecution's case against Manuel Noriega. But there was another reason for George Bush's eagerness to put away the big stick and start talking softly again. He believes in that AT&T advertising slogan, "Reach out and touch someone" -- not with the 82nd Airborne but with a telephone call. Starting in the early hours of Operation Just Cause, he talked to more than a dozen foreign leaders, many...
...receptive to the overseas reaction. In general, he is a good listener, unusually so for a politician. He is also very much a foreign policy President. He savors and nurtures his personal relationships with other leaders. A number of those he consulted said that whatever the provocation and even justification for attacking Panama, there would be a price to pay abroad. That message meant at least as much to Bush as the gloating of his political advisers over the payoff at home. To his credit, he seemed genuinely embarrassed when the bumptious Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater rushed...
...Jordans, designer jeans, starter jackets -- the fashion competition among even pre-teenage children on Chicago's grim West Side is not just fierce, it's murderous. Toughs steal high-priced apparel right off their schoolmates' backs, and sometimes the victim gets killed in the process. Now the advisory council at Tilton Elementary School has decided to put an end to the status strife. The school has adopted a new voluntary uniform: navy slacks, white shirts and ties for the boys; white blouses and blue skirts or jumpers for the girls...
...demands to secede from the union were an isolated appeal. If the nation is divided over issues of language, culture, politics and religion, it is united in its dissatisfaction with economic problems. As goes Lithuania, so might go other republics -- thus inviting a military crackdown and destroying perestroika. "If even the slightest suppression occurs, or a misunderstanding, say, in Estonia or Moldavia," Gorbachev warned, "it spills over to the rest of the country...
Haunted by nightmares of blood in Tiananmen Square, Rumania and even Tbilisi last April, when Soviet troops massacred 19 protesters, Moscow is reluctant to use force to maintain control in the republics. It is also possible to contemplate the three Baltic states seceding without the entire union unraveling. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are relatively recent additions to the union. Furthermore, unlike many of the other republics, the Baltics were independent at the time of their incorporation. There is, therefore, a historical basis for treating them as a special case. Perhaps the Kremlin aims to do just that. Last week Soviet...