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...easier to be a Reagan Republican today than it was in 1982," says Connecticut G.O.P. Chairman Thomas D'Amore. Since then Reagan has diluted his anti-Soviet rhetoric and, at least as significant for his re-election prospects, the grim recession has ended. Inflation is at a twelve-year low, unemployment is no worse than when Reagan took office, interest rates have fallen nine points from their peak in 1980. "The perceived well-being of the economy is very good," says Southern Pollster Claibourne Darden. "Whether Reagan is responsible for it or not is [politically] immaterial." A line Reagan used...
James Huberty was not "a grim drifter" at all but a serious family man. It was apparently his inability to support his family, his failed machismo, that finally drove him over the edge...
...pages, hope prevails. Some of these men have witnessed the very worst that people can inflict on one another; they were among the offenders abroad and the victims where they were born and raised. With such unique knowledge, they persist in believing that life need not be as grim as they have seen it. The vision they have earned by their experience finally transcends race; their dramatic monologues bear witness to humanity...
Overcrowded, polluted, corrupted, Mexico City offers the world a grim lesson...
Thus does grim irony follow upon gruesome tragedy in The Quality of Mercy (Simon & Schuster; 464 pages) by British Journalist William Shawcross. In his 1979 work, Sideshow, the author argued that through secret bombings the Nixon Administration had almost casually devastated Kampuchea (then called Cambodia), thereby facilitating the murderous rise of the Communist guerrillas of the Khmer Rouge. Here Shawcross investigates the horrors that came after the bloodbath. Drawing extensively from official reports, international-relief-organization memos, firsthand experiences and interviews with protagonists from all sides, he has put together an assiduously detailed account of how, as one senior...