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...White House was attempting to recover from a series of miscalculations that could doom the contra effort for good. In early August, Reagan startled members of his Administration by unveiling a peace plan that was co-sponsored by Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright. According to State Department officials, Reagan had intended to present the Sandinistas with a proposal that they could only reject, then ask Congress for new contra funding before the current aid expires on Sept. 30. But the scheme went awry. Three days later, when the Presidents of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua...
...ancient scold, with a new Jeremiah sounding the doom cry. Ben J. Wattenberg, a demographic analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, warns that the U.S. and other Western nations are not producing babies fast enough. Since 1957, writes Wattenberg in his new book The Birth Dearth (Pharos Books; $16.95), the average American woman's fertility rate has dropped from 3.77 children to 1.8 -- below the 2.1 size needed to maintain the present population level. Meanwhile, he argues, Communist-bloc nations are producing at a rate of 2.3 children per mother, while the Third World rate is rising...
Every boom spawns its prophets of doom, and the current bull market is no exception. Right now the most visible naysayer is a previously little-known economics professor named Ravi Batra. His eye-catching book, The Great Depression of 1990, has jumped to No. 4 in its sixth week on the New York Times' nonfiction best-seller list. At $17.95 a copy, it has been snapped up by some 175,000 buyers who are either curious or concerned -- or both -- about just how high the current boom can go before it turns to bust...
...then The Witches of Eastwick, then Dragnet. Half a dozen other films are silly-season successes. And so the industry, even as it fretted about a strike threatened by the Directors Guild, entered July with high hopes for the best summer since Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins made the wickets blister...
...After studying the divorce rates and surveying some 3,000 married people, as well as unmarried couples, Harris issued two reassuring findings last week: only one in eight marriages ends in divorce, and fully 89% of those surveyed say their relationships with their partners are satisfying. "The prophets of doom could not be any more wrong," says Harris. "The American family is surviving...