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Gromyko provides scant detail about the six major Soviet leaders under whom he served. He calls Joseph Stalin a "cruel man" who "created a monstrous ) tyranny," a view consistent with the latest winds of glasnost, but he refuses to condemn Stalin's terror outright. One of the most revealing anecdotes in the book is Gromyko's account of a telephone call he received from Konstantin Chernenko one day in 1985 in which the ailing Soviet leader asked whether he should resign because of ill health. "There's no need to hurry," Gromyko cautioned. Three days later Chernenko was dead...
Look at the Office for Career Services. It provides all undergraduates with extensive information about jobs. And female students already belong to another organization which excludes men, Radcliffe College. Radcliffe sponsors numerous programs for women that men don't participate in. I don't mean to condemn Radcliffe's offerings, I just mean to point out that women have access to many career resources...
...before Americans condemn Iowa and its caucus, they should take a closer look at this week's results. While the final vote had its share of surprises, there is no reason to believe that the Iowa caucuses have single-handedly selected the next Democratic and Republican nominees...
...popular television series L.A. Law, which has recently turned its hand to social-action stories and away from money, its founding muse. Tom Wolfe, who has forged a career out of the superficialities of the times, now produces a novel about vanity, sensing that people may be ready to condemn the vacant, self-celebrating life. The plague of AIDS, in its own dark way, has contributed to a national maturing by forcing prospective lovers to confront one another as realities and not as players in a game...
...close eye on the Costa Rica summit. In a whirlwind tour of Central America two weeks ago, Lieut. General Colin Powell, Reagan's National Security Adviser, irritated Nicaragua's neighbors by suggesting that they might suffer U.S. aid cutbacks if they abandoned the contras. Powell also urged them to condemn the Sandinistas' intransigence as a major obstacle to peace. The Administration's critics saw the mission as part of an overall plan to topple the Sandinistas by using the contras to wage a proxy war. The outcome of last week's summit, however, seemed to dim hopes that Congress would...