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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...With the help of the United States, European nations should break down "barriers of the past" and work toward political union, the Czechoslovakian Minister of Foreign Affairs said at a speech last night...
...still, every act or failure to act brings criticism. John Root, a young New York City lawyer whose wife perished on Pan Am Flight 103, a bombing with a suspected link to Tehran, was incensed to hear Bush's "thanks" to Iran and Syria for their help in freeing Polhill and Reed. Thanks for a tiny lapse from barbarism? "We can't go by the Marquis of Queensberry rules," says Root, although he acknowledges sympathy for Bush and his impossible equation...
...were flying -- with the indispensable help of flight instructors -- in identical Italian-built, Marchetti SF.260W air-force trainers, experiencing the sometimes sickening thrill of aerial combat, but without the lethal weapons. I am neither a licensed pilot nor a natural-born killer. But this was a Walter Mitty dream of combat come true -- and, as someone once said about bullfighting, it may be inexcusable, but it's irresistible...
...Cosby intentions, television seems determined to become the only place in the nation where the black middle class is growing exponentially. Most black sitcoms are like old-fashioned white ones except with better music. On Family Matters, the Winslows all joined together to perform in a rap video to help Eddie win a contest. The kids enjoying a beach vacation on A Different World may be black, but their primary identity seems to be boisterous middle-class college students. Symbolically, of course, it is indeed a different world when sitcom characters routinely wear T shirts that proclaim, MARTIN, MALCOLM, MANDELA...
...Mormon pass into the highest levels of heaven. After performing the rite for themselves, Mormons may repeat it over and over for the vicarious benefit of dead relatives. But by some accounts, the number performing such "temple work" has been falling off. A briefer, modernized ritual could help reverse that trend. Says Mormon author Allen Roberts: "The ceremony is less harsh, less threatening, less offensive...