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...state plainly that it will not tolerate any Soviet military base in Nicaragua, or any overt or covert attempt by Nicaragua to attack its neighbors." Now, what exactly does "will not tolerate" mean? One cannot just say it. Carter declared the Soviet brigade in Cuba intolerable. Reagan declared the crackdown on Polish Solidarity intolerable. And the intolerable endured, despite the brave words. To be serious about containing Sandinista subversion -- overt and covert -- will mean vigilance, resources and risk. It will mean everything from pouring aid into El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to establishing a ring of American bases around...
...more than one candidate competing for every job. A Soviet editor announced that next year Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel, Doctor Zhivago, would be published in the Soviet Union for the first time. While those measures and the freeing of some dissidents gave reason to expect further liberalization, the crackdown on the refuseniks indicated that, as Ambassador Hartman observed, the Soviets have not yet changed their basic view of the relationship between the individual and the state...
Still, the Kremlin had plenty of invective left for its enemies at home. In arresting Churbanov, 50, Brezhnev's son-in-law and First Deputy Minister of the Interior from 1980 to 1984, Moscow continued its crackdown on official misdeeds. Gorbachev has repeatedly attacked lax ethical standards under Brezhnev, who died in 1982, and has given top priority to rooting out corruption. If convicted, Churbanov could face 15 years in prison or even death for accepting bribes...
Amazing, perhaps, but like any radical surgery, however necessary, inevitably painful. The new leanness of U.S. business means, above all, a crackdown on heavy payrolls. A large portion of the layoffs from restructuring have taken place in manufacturing. From 1979 to 1986, total U.S. manufacturing employment declined from some 21 million jobs to 19.1 million. But partly because of this slimming down, U.S. manufacturing productivity -- hourly output -- has risen by an average of 3.8% annually over the past five years, compared with 1.5% in the '70s. But no such productivity improvement is yet evident outside of manufacturing. Says Treasury...
Ever since students in China began pressing for democratic reforms last December, thousands of their compatriots studying at U.S. colleges and universities have closely watched their progress. Even so, the over 14,000 Chinese students in the U.S. kept mum about the demonstrations and the subsequent government crackdown. Last week the silence ended. While their fellow students in China protested the latest crackdown on reforms with their signatures, some 1,000 Chinese students in the U.S. made their feelings known in a dramatic and unprecedented gesture of their own: they signed an open letter to the Communist Party hierarchy questioning...