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...Aviator, a Christopher Reeve adventure movie; the first part of a PBS series, Survival Guides, directed by Jonathan Demme; this summer's Silverado, a Lawrence Kasdan western; and After Hours, made in New York City by Martin Scorsese. Not bad for someone with, as she puts it, "a chronic insecurity problem. As an actress I think I have a lot to learn. And I think I'm learning...
...news about Chernenko's death was hardly unexpected, given his age, 73, and his increasingly poor health. The medical report, signed by Dr. Yevgeni Chazov, the chief Kremlin physician, revealed that Chernenko had died of heart failure brought on by chronic emphysema. The report noted that the late General Secretary had also suffered from "chronic hepatitis, which worsened into cirrhosis," a deterioration of the liver...
Western Europe's unions are, of course, a long way from extinction. The spirit of solidarity still burns brightly in the hearts and imaginations of many Europeans, decades after unions first began to stand up for the working man and woman. But labor's problems--chronic unemployment, dwindling membership, the shifting nature of work, waning public support--are immense. If the failure of the British coal miners' strike holds a lesson for European labor, it may be this: the future of unionized workers is inextricably bound up with the health of the companies and industries in which they work. Unions...
Responding to chronic accusations that it is one of Harvard's most unfriendly concentrations, the Government Department has organized an undergraduate affairs committee to improve communication between Government concentrators and faculty...
This intense focus on defense, to the near exclusion of the other items in the budget, is somewhat astonishing. Reagan called his nonmilitary cutbacks "the most exhaustive effort ever made to rein in Government's chronic overspending," and in any other year they would have raised a quadraphonic howl of protest. The President proposes to freeze spending on a number of programs, prominently including pensions for retired civilian and military employees (other than those on Social Security) and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements to doctors and hospitals. Nearly a score of other programs would be "reformed"--that is, cut deeply. Among them: farm...