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...performing an enormous public service. It's giving the American people the ability to become part of the debate over the most important issue of our times." For Roger Molander, founder of the nuclear-war-education group Ground Zero, The Day After is a conduit to confrontation. "To come to grips with the reality of nuclear war, one has to go through a nuclear passage, to confront a nuclear war in all its horror. This will provide a passage for 30, 40, 50 million Americans...
While official University statements have addressed the problem of perceived discrimination, they fail to confront any real racism that may exist on campus, Freeman said...
...women and children line up outside government-run "supermarkets of the people" in Managua and other cities. Their hope is to be first for whatever minimal, unpredictable rations of meat and chicken may be available that day. Even the early risers are frequently disappointed. At a typical scramble, housewives confront a butcher who tells them that the meat locker is empty and he has "no idea" when more supplies will arrive. Milk and fish are scarce, fresh eggs are the rarest of treats, and produce counters display only limp, miserable specimens of vegetables and fruit...
...menace as an excuse for not fulfilling earlier promises. Says Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra: "For a country to achieve democracy, it needs stability." The Sandinistas have also discovered that the fervor of their young people has provided them with an effective, albeit inexperienced corps of militiamen eager to confront the enemy...
...secret that the Swedish Academy's decisions have often been slanted toward geopolitical rather than literary concerns. This hedge against Western hegemony proved instructive; every so often the world had to confront an unknown writer of an obscure tongue. But the award to Golding, a comfortable Englishman with no extreme political opinions, must give pause even to the staunchest defenders of the Nobel experiment. Can those charged with making the awards tell quality when they see it? Golding is fine, to be sure, but not before Gordimer, Grass and Greene. And, in alphabetical order, not before Kobo Abe, Jorge...