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...Kerouac -- is in my Genet class," White says breathlessly. On the way home, he stops off at a student's house to pick up a copy of Genet's The Screens. "Isn't he cute," White says of the student when he returns to the car. "I have to avert my eyes when I talk to him or I lose my concentration. 'I'm straight; I hope you don't find that repellent,' he said to me the other day. Wasn't that cute? 'You're doing fine,' I told him. 'Stay just...
Nelson Mandela's grand and glorious reception in New York City came about only after some backstage scrambling. The problem? To avert major protests by Jewish organizations upset at Mandela's tendency to equate the black South African struggle with that of Palestinians and at his warm words for Arafat. Before the scheduled visit, Harry Belafonte and Roger Wilkins, officials of the Mandela welcome committee, arranged for Jewish leaders to meet with Mandela in Geneva. Though he succeeded in mollifying some of them by acknowledging Israel's right to exist, more militant Jews went away from the talks still intent...
...markets overseas became a simple matter of survival for many U.S. firms. So far, their efforts have paid off handsomely. Exports have zoomed to record levels this year, a trend that has helped narrow the chronic U.S. trade deficit and provide the domestic economy with just enough vitality to avert a recession. "Thank goodness for exports," says Allen Sinai, chief economist with the Boston Co. Economic Advisers. "Without them, the U.S. economy would be dead in the water...
...until now, the overriding issue at U.S.-Soviet summits has been how to avert World War III. Next week's meeting will be different. George Bush will be receiving a Soviet leader who has openly warned that his country may be heading toward civil war. That specter haunts conversations with citizens of the U.S.S.R. at many levels of society and in many parts of the country, and it ought to be an urgent item on the international agenda...
...question now facing the city was what, if anything, could avert a plunge into deeper turmoil. Less than five months after he was sworn in as New York's first African-American mayor, Dinkins was confronting severe strains in the multiracial society he likes to call the "gorgeous mosaic." Yusuf Hawkins, Dinkins declared, had been killed by "racism in the first degree." Though "no verdict can take back the hate that was unleashed upon him or the pain that was inflicted upon all of us by the attack," said Dinkins, "it does allow us to begin to turn our attention...