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...republics expected a disproportionate amount of attention from the West, but that has waned, and some Baltic leaders are worried that Europe and the U.S. may neglect the very countries in which economic and political reform has the best chance. "It will be a long time," says Latvian journalist Valdis Berzins, "before we live on a par with the rest of Europe...
...Balts view the issue differently: Russian migration was the means by which the Kremlin subjugated them. "Is making Latvian the official language a deprivation of human rights?" asks Viesturs Karnups, director of the Latvian Department of Citizenship. Argues Estonian journalist Tarmu Tammerk: "There is a misperception in the West. Most Russians here have come to terms with the fact that this is a foreign country...
...Zhou] was a force of moderation for thestudent movement in 1989," said research associateRoss Terrill, a journalist and author who wasexpelled from China in September. The communistgovernment opposed Terrill's support of Chinesestudent dissident Shen Tong...
...Franklin. J.F.K.'s model was, of course, his father, Joseph P., financier, politico and womanizer who, foreshadowing his second son's White House trysts, brought his mistress home. An old chum reports that Jack's favorite phrase was "Slam, bam, thank you, ma'am." Inga Arvad, the Danish-born journalist who was Kennedy's lover during the early 1940s, remembers "a boy, not a man, intent upon ejaculation and not a woman's pleasure." Lem Billings, Kennedy's oldest friend, is more sympathetic. "I think he wanted to believe in love and faithfulness and all that but what...
...ANYONE WHO CARES TO MEET A JOURnalist who has been happy in his work, THE SWAMP ROOT CHRONICLE (Norton; $24.95) is heartily recommended. In this peppy memoir, Robert Manning traces his career through the wire services, TIME and John Kennedy's State Department, plus 16 years as editor in chief of the Atlantic until he was sandbagged -- there seems no better word for it -- by the magazine's present owner, Mort Zuckerman. It's hard to avoid smugness when recounting one's triumphs, and the author does not always succeed. Manning got his start at the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press, which...