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...European monetary link, for example, will make it easier to reduce Britain's double-digit inflation rate. Sterling, already a petrocurrency at a time of soaring oil prices, will become even stronger. Pressure on Thatcher intensified also from other European capitals as the process of German unification reached its climax this month. In effect, Britain was being asked to weigh in as a countervailing force to Germany, which has Europe's most powerful economy. Even the French have been quietly but assiduously courting the British. Prior to unification day in Germany, a balance existed among West Germany, France and Britain...
Baseball in October! It is the climax of an annual courtship between the U.S. male and his faster, stronger, younger self. As his favorite players dance through the 162-game season, a fan takes in the teasing thrills, the endless conversation. Then postseason nears, and his passion is stirred like a farm boy's anxious lust on prom night. Larry Andersen, the veteran relief pitcher, could have been defining America's obsession with professional sport when he said, "You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever." And that goes for women as well...
More than 700 people have died in the townships around Johannesburg since fighting broke out in mid-August, largely between supporters of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and Zulus belonging to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha movement. Last week the bloodshed reached a numbing climax, when black men rampaged through a Soweto-bound commuter train with guns, pangas and knives, killing at least 26 people. The violence poses a threat to the fundamental change promised by President F.W. de Klerk, whose efforts to dismantle apartheid nonetheless achieve an important milestone next week when he meets with President Bush...
When the clamor reached a climax, the Soviet President, sitting glumly on a back bench of the tribunal, decided he had heard enough. Gorbachev intervened to defend his embattled Prime Minister. His voice quavering with emotion, he warned against "shaking up all political institutions" in the country. "If someone proves incompetent," said Gorbachev, "let's remove him. But in a normal fashion. Not by pushing him up against the wall." All the "insults and insinuations," he charged, left a "bad odor...
...Barnard and Reginald Hill have each written deft examples of all three. In their newest and most ambitious works, they adroitly fuse the subgenres together to paint rich, if characteristically jaundiced, social panoramas of decaying industrial towns. Both offer the teasing pleasures of suspense, sly misdirection and a breakneck climax as police seek to avert bloody murder. $ Both feature a gallery of vivid characters. And both take on themes ostensibly belonging to serious literature...