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...blond host sits on a windowsill, smiling into a filtered lens. An apple is in one hand, a hair dryer in the other. Dress is informal; in fact, it is nonexistent. Introductions are made. The host is: a) Diane Sawyer, co-host of CBS's Morning show, making an all-out bid to win the war of the a.m. news programs; b) ABC's David Hartman, doing the same; or c) Lassie, doing what comes naturally...
Although the election is still more than three months away, the sudden surge in political activity is part of an all-out campaign by El Salvador's President Josó Napoleón Duarte and the ruling military-civilian junta to persuade Salvadorans to vote. The election, Duarte argues, is a step toward ending the savage civil war that is tearing the country apart and toward restoring the democratic process. Duarte, who is also leader of the centrist Christian Democratic Party, has the strong backing of the U.S. in calling the election. The tentative plan is for the constituent...
...wake of a sweeping government clampdown on the 15-month-old Solidarity Union movement and the imposition of martial law, the analysts said scenarios ranging from all-out violent confrontation to grudging but peaceful acceptance of the new measures all remain possibilities...
Speculation differed on whether the expected protests would stay peaceful or spill over into an all-out confrontation between union and government. In any case, Poland's leaders were expected to do everything possible to handle the crisis themselves before they would resort to calling on the Soviet Union or other Warsaw Pact allies to provide "fraternal assistance...
Another urgent need-which is as much the Europeans' responsibility as the U.S.'s-is an all-out, sustained buildup in conventional forces. The Western democracies will probably never be able to match the Soviet bloc in conscripted military, but by substantially narrowing the gap, NATO might some day be able to deter the armored legions of the Warsaw Pact without having to rely quite so much on the threat of using the nuclear equalizer. With the viability of nuclear deterrence against nonnuclear aggression already in doubt, the less that concept is belabored, the better...