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...counting on the surge of immigration to ensure its domination of its neighbors for decades to come. No matter how clearly the Arabs see that threat, their pressure is unlikely to force Gorbachev to choke off Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union. The future success of perestroika will depend heavily on economic and technical assistance from the West, and part of the fee Gorbachev will have to pay for such help is to provide an open door for those of his countrymen who want to leave...
...fact and opinion in an unforgiving 770-word format. Even though in a parade of predictions in late 1988 he called the fall of the Berlin Wall, this Pulitzer-prizewinning pundit also flatly asserted last March that the Soviet Union would never brook Eastern Europe's attempts at independence. "Depend on Mr. Gorbachev to crack down as Mr. Stalin would have, fraternally rolling in the tanks and shooting the dissenters," he wrote. "The present Kremlin leader was not chosen to preside over the dissolution of the Soviet empire...
...question for the N.R.A. is whether it will continue to speak for a large body of opinion or dwindle into sound and fury from the margins. That will probably depend on whether it can match its voice to the sentiments of people who are citizens as well as gun owners. If the N.R.A. has the appeal of a faith, it also has the weaknesses of many religions. Faith can be too blunt and brittle, too full of certainties to engage all the dense dilemmas of American life. In a matter as complex as gun control, the mind that allows room...
Those actions will depend on the behavior of Mandela and the A.N.C. In its 78th anniversary message from Lusaka last week, the A.N.C. urged an intensification of the armed struggle against the South African government. Privately, however, A.N.C. officials admitted that they had reduced their military operations and that if De Klerk delivered a reasonable package of reforms, they would be prepared to talk about talks...
...pigment vital for photosynthesis in phytoplankton, slowing the marine plants' growth rate by as much as 30%. That, in turn, could threaten krill, shrimplike creatures that feed on phytoplankton and are a key link in Antarctica's food chain. Says El-Sayed: "Fish, whales, penguins and winged birds all depend very heavily on krill. If anything happened to the krill population, the whole system would collapse...