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What is to be done? Representative Washington has it exactly backward. Forget the crumbs, demand reparations. It is time for a historic compromise: a monetary reparation to blacks for centuries of oppression in return for the total abolition of all programs of racial preference. A one-time cash payment in...
Why reparations? First, because they are targeted precisely at those who deserve them. By now affirmative action has grown to include preferential treatment for Hispanics, women, the handicapped and an ever-expanding list of favored groups. This is absurd. By what moral standard should, say, a Marielito, already once rescued...
Shortly before he became head of the Soviet Communist Party in March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev ambled along a Black Sea beach with his old friend Eduard Shevardnadze, the party chief in Georgia, discussing what needed to be done. "We were walking and talking," Gorbachev recalled later. "We compared notes. He...
One of his toughest jobs was getting the U.S. to believe that he and Gorbachev meant what they said. A breakthrough occurred at a private dinner in May 1989 when Shevardnadze convinced his American counterpart, James Baker, that Moscow was determined to deal with the weaknesses of its socialist system...
Then came the real bombshell: "I am resigning." As cries of outrage and surprise sounded through the hall, Shevardnadze waved his hands and added, "Don't react, and don't criticize me. Let this be my personal contribution, my protest against the advance of dictatorship. I believe that to resign...