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Gorbachev's overtures were clearly aimed at Western Europe. Some analysts assume that he is trying to encourage anti-Star Wars sentiment in member states of the Western alliance by linking missile reductions in Europe to abandonment of the U.S. space-weapons scheme. According to a West European diplomat in Moscow, Gorbachev may "try to separate at least parts of Europe from the U.S. on the subject of Star Wars...
...Harvard: discipline. The Faculty has reconstituted a Vietnam-era disciplinary body--the student-faculty Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR)--to punish some of the 200 students involved in an April sit-in at the headquarters of Harvard's Governing Boards and a blockade of a South African diplomat in a Lowell House room...
...some of those without connections, the Sandinista explanation that the U.S. is the cause of everything that goes wrong in Nicaragua is losing credibility. One possible sign of eroding popular support is that the "defense committee" system responsible for neighborhood surveillance and security is breaking down. A Western diplomat estimates that 50% to 60% of the population are what he calls "passively" anti-Sandinista, even if they have not yet drawn political conclusions from the economic squeeze. Says he: "If these people were Poles or U.S. citizens, they would be rioting in the streets. It may be they...
Despite his problems, Sankara is widely admired at home, in part because he has reformed the country's judicial system by introducing what he calls "people's courts." Says a Western diplomat in Ouagadougou: "He means it when he says he is for social justice for all." Sankara believes his goal of "two meals a day and safe drinking water" for all of Burkina Faso's people can be achieved. The main hope for economic development lies in the exploitation of natural resources, which include gold, copper and diamonds. One instance of Sankara's example-setting parsimony: when the electrical...
...leading cause of divorce, violent crime and accidental death. Soviet statistics also suggest that alcohol abuse is the main reason that male life expectancy, which is on the rise in all other industrialized nations, has dropped from 67 years to 62 over the past 20 years. Says a Western diplomat based in Moscow: "It's a tough problem, and I think (the Soviets) are trying to tackle it in an intelligent...