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...political system that makes leadership such a personal matter, Ted Kennedy will be a central figure no matter what the circumstances. His determination to stay the distance in the brutal, exhausting primary fight and to raise his voice even in his hour of greatest defeat was courageous...
...years ago, violent food price riots broke out in the grimy Baltic seaport of Gdansk, spread rapidly to other regions and threatened to sweep the country. The government's brutal response left hundreds of workers dead and forced the resignation of Communist Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka. His successor, Edward Gierek, had good cause to reflect upon those events last week. The workers of Gdansk were up in arms again: 16,000 angry employees of the Lenin Shipyard went on strike and occupied the sprawling complex. They were soon joined by bus drivers and workers at some 17 other factories...
...strict monetarist policies, following the doctrine of U.S. Economist Milton Friedman. She has rigidly controlled the money supply, doubled the value-added tax, cut benefits for striking workers, and slashed $20 billion in public spending for all manner of education, housing and municipal programs. Thatcher defends the brutal cuts on the grounds that she won the election with the candid promise that "things will get worse before they get better," and Britons should not be surprised that they have. But even some of her close supporters are now beginning to wonder how much worse that means...
Some 250 miles east of where the party of illegal immigrants died in the desert, Douglas was the site of an episode that reflects another bitter and brutal aspect of the problems stemming from aliens crossing the border. Two ranching brothers-Patrick Hanigan, 26, and Thomas Hanigan, 23-were on trial last week in federal court in Tucson, charged with beating and robbing three Mexican aliens in 1976. The case has divided the city of Douglas and inflamed passions on both sides of the border. Many ranchers of Anglo-Saxon descent-the "Anglos"-insist that the Hanigans are being unfairly...
Fuller's dream movie has about it a mellowness that contrasts sharply with the brutal force of his earlier films, which often derived their power from the simple act of upending generic conventions-having the hero actually pull the trigger at the moment when normally he might be expected to holster his gun, or even fall into hysterics just when he was supposed to be most tightly controlled. Fuller is still doing this in Big Red, but in a much more benign way. In the movie, which traces the lives of four privates and their sergeant (Lee Marvin) from...