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Those looking for easy or pleasant answers to the problem of racial strife will not find them in My Son's Story. What emerges instead is another of Gordimer's gripping portraits of people caught up in -- and defined by -- fatal abstractions...
...unanimously agreed last week on the boldest plan yet proposed to end 11 years of fighting in Cambodia. With U.S., Soviet and Chinese backing, the initiative calls for the U.N. to dispatch a military force of 10,000 and another 10,000 civilians to oversee free elections in the strife-torn nation. The U.N. would also supervise creation of a supreme national council to serve as an interim administration. It would comprise representatives of the two noncommunist resistance groups, the communist Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese-backed government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, all of which say they endorse...
This time the Sandinistas got what they wanted. After 10 days of paralyzing and often violent labor strife, the government of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro capitulated to the demands of pro-Sandinista government employees. Despite Chamorro's effort to hold the line on government spending, the National Workers' Front was granted a 43% wage hike for July and was promised another unspecified increase next month. The 800 public servants fired since Chamorro's inauguration on April 25 were granted compensation. And the government suspended plans to return to private ownership properties confiscated during the 10 years of Sandinista rule. With...
...life Mister Rogers, dispensing reassurance during their troubled adolescence. Reagan's message: problems can be shelved until later. A prime characteristic of today's young adults is their desire to avoid risk, pain and rapid change. They feel paralyzed by the social problems they see as their inheritance: racial strife, homelessness, AIDS, fractured families and federal deficits. "It is almost our role to be passive," says Peter Smith, 23, a newspaper reporter in Ventura, Calif. "College was a time of mass apathy, with pockets of change. Many global events seem out of our control...
...ruling party was engrossed in its internal strife," said the daily Dong-A Ilbo, and was ignoring domestic affairs. Roh admitted in a speech last week that his administration "has not been able to gain public confidence in the consistency of its policies...