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...capital, however, had the look of a nation at peace. The promenade around the city's downtown lake was filled with teenagers, many in blue jeans, who were trying to cope with the latest craze imported from Ho Chi Minn City (formerly Saigon): platform shoes. In contrast to 1980, when the markets held little except black-market cigarettes, the stores were packed with shoppers and a limited range of merchandise. Instead of exhortations from Ho Chi Minh, display windows at the Hanoi general department store contained wicker furniture...
...choices. They can keep making outlandish appropriations for defense and engaging in global adventures, or they can face up to their internal problems, turning away from military expansionism toward reform of the domestic system. Russia has experienced throughout its history periods when the government had to turn inward to cope with its problems. The idea that the greatness of the country was achieved not on foreign battlefields but by building the society from within has fresh proponents today. But if Brezhnev's successors let the impetus of expansionism carry them forward rather than take the path of internal reform...
...filed for divorce, complaining that his wife could not cope with his need to have sex twice a day. One couple, in a now famous case, argued so bitterly over whose family should pay for the wedding that the husband ran away and the wife filed for divorce after, five days of marriage. Xiao Lan, a dancer and something of a social butterfly, tired of her introverted husband Fang Baojian, filed for divorce and declared in court: "I no longer love Fang. I long for a free world. I'll sleep with any man I wish to sleep with...
...real issues facing the second session of the 97th Congress, and they vented wrath at Reagan from both sides of the aisle for ignoring the problems of deficits and unemployment. Republican leaders on the Hill fear that they will have to come up with their own plan to cope with the unacceptably high deficits, without any support Tom Reagan. The first problem will be to pass the badly unbalanced 1983 budget the President plans to submit next week. "Are any Republicans going to vote for it?" asked Robert Dole of Kansas, somewhat despairingly. "If not, what happens? The Budget Committee...
Some of the jobless who stayed put are struggling to cope. From the Detroit suburb of Hazel Park, Larry Hampton, 26, sets out once or twice a week in his pickup truck to search the streets for scrap. Sheet metal brings a penny a pound; cast iron $45 a ton. On a good day, Hampton earns $15, and it keeps him busy. "I've just got too many bills and not enough money to pay them," says Hampton, who lost his job in a machine shop last November. "It's scary...