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A. Europe has weaknesses too. But with the elimination of the East-West divide, Europe is a continent that has suddenly doubled its size -- from 300 million to 700 million people. It has a high level of culture and enormous capacity for growth, particularly in those East European countries that...
What Your 1st Grader Needs to Know (Doubleday; $15) asks youngsters, among other things: What did Little Miss Muffet sit on? What does a stomach do? Which is the biggest continent? Who was Louis Armstrong? The second-grade volume advances to questions about Robin Hood, the Great Wall of China...
For his part, Milosevic claims merely to be toiling to preserve what he can of the old Yugoslavia. He can accept the departure of Slovenia, whose declaration of independence engendered a shorter military conflict early this summer; even Croatia can leave, yet only within reduced borders now being carved out...
Still, some believe race relations in Britain are not as bad as they are on the Continent. "There, blacks are seen as second-class citizens with few rights or none at all," says Bernie Grant, one of four black Labour Members of Parliament. "In Britain, most black people are citizens...
Yet the country views its new challenges as especially dicey. Its postwar identity depended on the postwar system, which has come unglued. Mitterrand's ambitions for E.C. political union and a joint defense policy are central to his design of preserving France's status as the Continent's anchor. Washington...