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...fact -- behind the wheel of borrowed or rented vans, collecting books from elderly donors who were too frail to pack and mail their books. Lansky no longer does the driving; a network of nearly 100 volunteers around the U.S. and Canada now handle most of the collecting. "We always expect the deluge to slow down," says Lansky. "Yet we're still getting 600 or 700 volumes a week." Late last year he visited half a dozen cities in the Soviet Union where Jews, taking advantage of the cultural freedom afforded by glasnost, have expressed an interest in establishing Yiddish libraries...
...winners include Midwestern farmers and Rustbelt manufacturers whose prosaic products, from corn to machine tools, are in hot demand around the world. Among the losers are Wall Street investment bankers, whose earnings have plunged with the waning of the buyout binge, and defense contractors across the country, who can expect new cutbacks as the cold war ends...
...regional ups and downs belie the popular image of the U.S. as a single, monolithic marketplace where similar economic conditions prevail from coast to coast. While most experts expect the U.S. economy to expand at an anemic rate of 1% to 2% this year, vs. nearly 3% in 1989, that statistic masks the fact that some areas are already in a recession while others are steaming ahead. "This is still an economy made up of a lot of subeconomies," says Robert Dederick, chief economist of Chicago's Northern Trust Bank. "That will be true for a long time to come...
...Saturday by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Moscow's solicitousness may be attributed to a desire to quell the discontent of ethnic Rumanians in the Soviet republic of Moldavia, a region Stalin annexed from Rumania in 1940. Now that Ceausescu is gone, the Kremlin has every reason to expect that secessionist fervor will be rekindled. Evidently Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev hopes Bucharest can be bribed not to fan the flames -- proof, if any were needed, that the road to reconstruction may take some highly unpredictable turns...
...possible female casualties. Yet the military knows the combat exclusion is artificial protection. "The critical point," Army spokeswoman Paige Eversole said last week, "is that these women were trained for whatever contingency they encountered. They could and did fire their weapons where necessary. In war," she added, "we expect women to be casualties in direct proportion to the numbers in which they serve...