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Cruising's routes have changed drastically from a few decades ago. Only one ship, the QE2, still makes the regular transatlantic run from New York City to Southampton, England. Instead of connecting distant cities, many ships now embark from home ports nearer to the scenic waters in which they will cruise. Today the world's most crowded port for cruise liners is Miami, where 24 major ships glide in and out of the harbor as they pick up passengers for excursions in the busy Caribbean and points beyond. Other booming ports are Los Angeles, where ships embark for the Mexican...
...Czechoslovakia during the spring, the Communist Party led by Alexander Dubcek undertook reforms that now seem a distant forerunner of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost -- efforts to humanize the socialist structure, to encourage greater individual discretion. Euphoria bloomed in the "Prague Spring." But the Soviets could not tolerate that measure of autonomy in their satellite, any more than they could abide Hungary in 1956 or, later, Poland in 1981. In August 1968, Soviet and other Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Prague and crushed the hope. Not long after, Dubcek ended up working obscurely for the Forestry Administration in western Slovakia...
...passed. They rushed to buy Ollie North posters, and a few even talked of his running for President. That may be difficult if, as widely expected, North is indicted in 1988 by Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. By now, the Olliemania of midsummer is little more than a distant memory, and a California entrepreneur who lost $30,000 in unsold Ollie dolls is converting his leftover inventory into Gorbachev dolls...
...filled with tears. He was overcome with emotion. He stared down at the table, and the tears ran down his cheeks. "I'm sorry," he said as he found his voice. "I don't like to do that." It was a rare show of emotion for the cool and distant Hart. Somewhat defensively, he pulled himself together. "I don't weep for myself," he said. "I weep for this country...
...young people of the 1950s and 1960s," he observes, "these were events connected with their fathers: they were spoken about in the family; memories of them still preserved the freshness of things seen. For the young people of the 1980s, they are matters associated with their grandfathers: distant, blurred, 'historical...