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...working in government departments and state-controlled industries by year's end. Says a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Ethiopia represents Moscow's greatest success in Africa in more than a decade. It's a prize that the Soviets aren't going to let slip away...
...lends itself to an audience," director Gus Trikonis said "You know, Valley Girls are big now, young people, their troubles in school. This is basically entertainment, and if you can slip in a few little slice of life on them, you're lucky...
...board. And all those immigrants standing in anxious L.A. airport queues, mainly Asians, are only the western flank. At the INS checkpoints to the south in San Diego, nearly 2,500 Mexicans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans are waved through each month. Many more, perhaps 50 times the legal arrivals, slip quietly over the border...
...years to do this," the leader of the free world declared, as the appropriately prepared audience recorded the moment. It was, Ronald Reagan said, done for a laugh. But it was also perhaps the only recourse left for a man who in the past year has seen his policies slip and his coalition crumble away...
...some of the region's longstanding problems. As of last September, the P.L.O. had been defeated, the Syrians had been virtually disarmed and the Soviets discredited in their ability to influence events. The U.S. responded with an admirable plan, the Reagan initiative, but then allowed precious months to slip by as the Israelis dallied, the Soviets rearmed the Syrians, the P.L.O. recovered part of its strength, and Jordan's King Hussein tried to decide whether to risk negotiating with Israel and the U.S. The moment of opportunity passed, and with it the Reagan initiative. In time the Syrians...