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If environmentalists must accept part of the blame for the present policy paralysis, they also deserve credit for some noteworthy victories this year. In a remarkably swift turnabout, Japan agreed to phase out its large-scale drift-net operations in the Pacific. Under pressure, Taiwan and South Korea have also...
In Houston, Baker warned Shevardnadze that resorting to repression could damage superpower relations. At the same time critics charge that propping up Gorbachev's failing economy could retard rather than promote reform, especially since the aid is being delivered to central authorities instead of the individual republics. Gorbachev has come...
The U.S. initiative was applauded overseas, where nearly two dozen other countries and relief organizations have already promised help, including $1 billion in credits and outright gifts and $1.4 billion in technical assistance from the European Community. So far, the Soviet Union has received more than 2,500 tons of...
The flesh is home: African nomads without houses decorate their faces and bodies instead. The skull is home. We fly in and out of it on mental errands. The highly developed spirit becomes a citizen of its own mobility, for home has been internalized and travels with the homeowner. Home...
Barbara's attempt to keep the spirit of peace and good cheer alive at a time of trouble is part of a long tradition. White House Christmases have often been bittersweet affairs. None was bleaker than the 1963 holiday, observed under the shadow of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Back...