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...mind about a product's safety. But according to a Consumer Reports study, the seal of approval given by the Juvenile Products Manufacturing Association may be less than meets the eye. When the magazine tested 22 high chairs bearing the sticker, several of them failed to meet safety standards set by the association. Says Maura Bray, spokeswoman for the JPMA: "We still are investigating that claim. If there is a problem, I can guarantee it will be reconciled -- quickly...
Integration of the former East Germany automatically introduces a special set of relationships with Eastern neighbors. "The cultural and economic links brought by the G.D.R. require Germany to develop a policy for Eastern Europe," says law professor Rupert Scholz, a former West German Defense Minister. That need is being accelerated by apprehension about instability and political fragility in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. "I am very much concerned at the shaky situation there," says Horst Teltschik, Kohl's top foreign policy adviser. "There is no stabilized democracy. They are in bad economic shape, and different ethnic groups are fighting...
...highlight the course Genscher is charting. First, to reassure the Soviets and the world that it truly disdains the use of force, Bonn agreed to reduce the combined German armed forces from 590,000 to 370,000 over the next four years. Second, at the U.N. last week, Genscher set out his hopes for the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He predicted that the CSCE would soon create new institutions, including "regular meetings of heads of state and government, a center for conflict prevention and a secretariat." Together, he said, they would provide the multilateral foundation...
...unnerved museum directors, who have long assumed that their right to show whatever artworks they selected is covered by First Amendment guarantees of free expression. With a battle over funding for the National Endowment for the Arts expected to begin in Congress this week -- a fight that was set off by Mapplethorpe's pictures -- the art world is feeling besieged. "The police coming in our door has opened the door of all museums," says Barrie...
...What is really needed is a major interdisciplinary effort," Rosovsky said, adding that graduate schools of education should be called on to help set priorities for such an undertaking...