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...many Northern cities, the Chicago election was an ethnic power struggle. Six years ago, the charismatic Harold Washington became the city's first black mayor with a crusading campaign among blacks that also won the support of some white liberals. That coalition won him re-election in 1987. But his inarticulate successor, Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer, who took over after Washington's death 16 months ago, was unable to hold the alliance together. His cause was doomed when Alderman Timothy Evans, a Washington disciple, rebuffed Jackson's appeal for black unity. With the black electorate split and black turnout...
...bought the territory from Russia in 1867 for $7 million, little changed. The gold rushes of the late 1800s brought hordes of prospectors, beginning a boom-and-bust cycle that continues to this day. Says Celia Hunter, a lodge keeper who came to the territory 42 years ago: "Alaskans have always looked for the big bang that would solve all their problems." Some development schemes were downright absurd. In the late 1950s, Hunter helped quash a proposal to use atom bombs to blast an artificial harbor out of the northern coast. "The argument even then was jobs, jobs, jobs...
...fatigue-clad revolutionary. Mikhail Gorbachev and Fidel Castro. New thinking and old orthodoxy. Castro talked the most, but Gorbachev had the last word. He coolly rejected Castro's policy of exporting revolution, a central tenet of the Cuban leader's 30-year rule. Until a very few years ago, Moscow's leaders too preached worldwide support for wars of national liberation. But Gorbachev's words in Havana seemed intended to reinforce his professed determination to replace such vaporous ideology with solidly grounded pragmatism -- obtaining influence in Latin America, say, by diplomatic means and not just by Cuban proxy...
Half a world away, equally momentous but even more uncertain changes were coming to Kampuchea. More than a decade ago, with the U.S.S.R.'s blessing, Viet Nam invaded its next-door neighbor. Hanoi may eventually have tired of the unending war, which has cost it 50,000 casualties. But in the past few years, Gorbachev has had compelling reasons to withdraw Moscow's support...
...here: adult, which means no children allowed, and family, indicating the loud presence of small people. But college students on spring break occasionally turn their beer-dousing noses away from Daytona Beach long enough to take in a game. Senior citizen Jack Keidel, who retired to Orlando some years ago and now works as a volunteer usher at Twins games, speaks for many of his peers when he says that baseball "breaks up the monotony of endless golf." A 14-year-old wearing a T shirt emblazoned with the face of the Reds' Chris Sabo, the N.L. Rookie...