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...live in a society where racism exists,"she added. "What is important is to realize thatcross-cultural misunderstandings do occur, and wemust be willing to make mistakes in order to learnfrom them...
...most contentious religious problem within the Soviet Union concerns the 4 million or so Catholics in the western Ukraine, whose plight is a key agenda item in this week's talks between Gorbachev and the Pope. Friendlier contacts, and a papal visit to the U.S.S.R., cannot occur unless this, the world's largest underground religious community, is restored. Under Stalin, all Ukrainian Catholic bishops were imprisoned and a fraudulent 1946 synod dissolved their jurisdictions, handing over 4,100 churches to Russian Orthodoxy. The majority of the Catholic priests rejected the takeover and either were arrested or went into hiding...
...desperate situation is sparking an increasingly heated debate within the Soviet Union about the direction of perestroika. On the one hand are liberals, who think the country must move faster toward a free-market economy; on the other are conservatives, who want any changes to occur so gradually that consumers will be cushioned from price increases and unemployment. Gorbachev is caught in the middle. The measured tempo he has chosen for perestroika has caused only economic disruption and hardship, at least in the short...
...first nobody noticed how much had disappeared because heists in high places occur without ski masks or guns. But now the House Banking Committee, the thousands of duped bondholders and the public have caught on: to the empty vault at California's Lincoln Savings and Loan, to the perfidy of its owner Charles Keating and to the complicity of the Government. Says Banking Committee member Jim Leach of Iowa: "Keating is at fault because he is a bank robber, but we in Washington made it, in part, a legal bank robbery...
...schools ever were islands of safety within otherwise violent neighborhoods, they certainly are no longer," warns a new booklet of advice from the federally funded National School Safety Center at California's Pepperdine University. The center says 3 million crimes a year occur on school grounds, with 183,590 injuries reported in 1987. Another study estimates that on a typical day at least 100,000 U.S. pupils carry guns, and the firepower is getting heavier...